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. 2019 Sep 18;127(9):097004. doi: 10.1289/EHP3395

Table 3.

Predicted estimates of mean minutes of daily walking [95% confidence interval (CI)] for exposure to high vs. low measures local or regional accessibility with and without additional adjustment for other measures of local or regional accessibility, VISTA 2012–2014.

Exposurea Lowest accessibility Highest accessibility Difference in predicted walkingc
nb Predicted walkingc nb Predicted walkingc
Local accessibility measures
 LLI: Home
  Single-exposure model 2,245 7.04 (6.51, 7.57) 522 12.14 (10.56, 13.71) 5.09 (3.41, 6.78)
  +LLI  (work/education) 2,245 7.87 (7.30, 8.44) 522 11.74 (10.23, 13.25) 3.87 (2.26, 5.48)
  +Jobs within  30  min 2,245 8.19 (7.51, 8.86) 522 10.80 (9.33, 12.28) 2.62 (0.96, 4.28)
  +Commute time by car/public transport 2,233 7.70 (7.12, 8.27) 520 12.39 (10.81, 13.97) 4.69 (3.02, 6.37)
  +LOPTS home 2,245 7.58 (6.95, 8.20) 522 11.03 (9.47, 12.59) 3.46 (1.69, 5.23)
  +LOPTS work/education 2,245 8.30 (7.70, 8.89) 522 11.54 (10.09, 12.99) 3.24 (1.69, 4.80)
 LLI: Work/Education
  Single-exposure model 1,094 4.79 (4.25, 5.33) 1,793 13.45 (12.59, 14.32) 8.66 (7.67, 9.66)
  +LLI  (home) 1,094 5.00 (4.45, 5.55) 1,793 13.27 (12.41, 14.13) 8.27 (7.28, 9.27)
  +Jobs within  30  min 1,094 5.18 (4.61, 5.74) 1,793 13.17 (12.31, 14.03) 7.99 (6.99, 8.99)
  +Commute time by car/public transport 1,080 5.66 (5.02, 6.29) 1,792 12.64 (11.80, 13.48) 6.99 (5.93, 8.04)
  +LOPTS: Home 1,094 5.02 (4.46, 5.58) 1,793 13.25 (12.40, 14.10) 8.24 (7.24, 9.23)
  +LOPTS: Work/education 1,094 6.69 (5.94, 7.45) 1,793 12.03 (11.22, 12.84) 5.34 (4.21, 6.47)
Regional accessibility measures
 Jobs within 30 min by public transport
  Single-exposure model 1,232 6.06 (5.46, 6.65) 1,232 12.58 (11.46, 13.71) 6.53 (5.24, 7.82)
  +LLI  (home)  and LLI  (work/education) 1,231 7.32 (6.57, 8.07) 1,231 11.61 (10.54, 12.67) 4.29 (2.89, 5.68)
 Commute time by car vs. public transport
  Single-exposure model 1,332 5.87 (5.26, 6.49) 272 17.79 (15.25, 20.33) 11.92 (9.25, 14.59)
  +LLI  (home)  and LLI  (work/education) 1,332 7.60 (6.84, 8.35) 272 14.81 (12.56, 17.06) 7.21 (4.79, 9.64)
 LOPTS: Home
  Single-exposure model 2,909 7.42 (6.92, 7.93) 480 13.38 (11.56, 15.20) 5.95 (4.04, 7.87)
  +LLI  (home)  and LLI  (work/education) 2,909 8.68 (8.04, 9.33) 480 11.56 (9.96, 13.15) 2.87 (1.08, 4.66)
 LOPTS: Work/Education
  Single-exposure model 1,447 4.70 (4.23, 5.16) 1,486 16.05 (14.97, 17.14) 11.36 (10.17, 12.55)
  +LLI  (home)  and LLI  (work/education) 1,447 6.21 (5.56 ,6.86) 1,486 14.5 (13.5, 15.53) 8.29 (7.03, 9.56)

Note: +indicates the inclusion of the named variable in the single exposure model specified above it. LLI, local living index; LOPTS, level of public transport service.

a

Lowest and highest categories for each exposure are defined, respectively, as follows: LLI (home and work/education), 0–3 and 10–12 destinations; jobs within 30 min by public transport, <4,000 and >30,000; commute time by car:public transport ratio, <0.25 and 0.75; level of public transport service (home and work/education), 0 and 2–3.

b

Numbers of observations in each exposure category; does not account for missing covariate data. There were 16 missing values for commute time by car/public transport.

c

Estimates from linear regression models of minutes of daily walking (transformed by a power of 1/2.6 and back transformed to compare in bootstrapped contrasts) in association with local accessibility measures (LLI: Home and LLI: Work/Education) and regional accessibility measures among 4,913 adults commuting to work or education on the survey day. Single-exposure models were adjusted for age group, sex, household income, occupational skill level, license to drive, number of household vehicles, distance to work/education (km), Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), and clustering at a Statistical Area 1 (SA1) level. Models of local accessibility measures were additionally adjusted for the alternative LLI and each of the regional accessibility measures; models of each reginal accessibility measure were additionally adjusted for LLI: Home and LLI: Work/Education.