Table 3.

Prevalence of poor health for each metric in the study population and by gender and age categories and by economic sectors

	Smoking		Physical activity		BMI		Blood pressure
	Poor health		Poor health		Poor health		Poor health
	%	p*	%	p*	%	p*	%	p*
Study population	26.1		33.3		19.1		19.2
Gender		< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001
Male	31.8		34.8		19.8		23.7
Female	19.1		31.4		18.3		13.6
Age categories		< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001
15–24 years	27.4		34.2		11.5		9.3
25–34 years	28.8		32.7		14.4		11.0
35–44 years	28.0		35.0		19.6		16.4
45–54 years	23.9		34.0		23.9		25.5
55–69 years	21.9		29.8		22.5		31.4
Economic sectors		< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001
Education	14.9		26.4		15.0		14.4
Health care	19.1		27.9		18.4		15.7
Government	22.6		25.5		19.8		17.3
Accommodation and food services	36.8		42.5		17.7		18.2
Distributive trade	31.4		42.1		17.9		21.1
Manufacturing	30.8		35.7		18.9		21.4
Services	33.3		38.9		17.6		19.2
Construction	40.7		46.1		19.8		25.4
Transport and storage	35.3		41.8		30.6		30.7
Other	27.2		35.8		18.9		22.1

*p resulting from Chi-square test with Bonferroni correction