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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Epidemiol Rep. 2019 Feb 2;6(1):14–22. doi: 10.1007/s40471-019-0179-y

Table 2.

Data regarding cycling, age, and life satisfaction observed in a sample of a random 1% of children and random 10% of adults from the population shown in Table 1.

Population Satisfied Not Satisfied Total
Children who cycle 50 50 100
Adults who cycle 750 250 1000
Total for cyclists 800 300 1100
Children who don’t cycle 25 75 100
Adults who don’t cycle 250 750 1000
Total for non-cyclists 300 800 1100
Total 1100 1100 2200

Risk Difference = 800/1100 – 300/1100 = 0.454