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. 2021 Nov 12;16:100964. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100964

Table 3.

Population-weighted reporting of barriers for included and excluded participants.

Variables of interest Excluded (N=4331267.6)
Included (N=24499461.6)
Total (N=28,830,729.2)
p-value
N %/SE N %/SE N %/SE
Prefer to be active than sitting/lying down Strongly agree 59766.23 1.8 364652.64 1.4 424418.87 1.5 0.004
Somewhat agree 388393.32 11.4 2422832.66 9.5 2811225.98 9.8
Somewhat disagree 1810701.69 53.1 12561610.41 49.4 14372312.1 49.9
Strongly disagree 1150313.71 33.7 10072458.54 39.6 11222772.25 38.9
Sees people in community being active Strongly agree 90460.47 2.8 372717.84 1.5 463178.31 1.6 <.001
Somewhat agree 498240.93 15.5 3269083.82 12.8 3767324.75 13.1
Somewhat disagree 1924449.75 60.0 15153196.09 59.1 17077645.84 59.2
Strongly disagree 691612.94 21.6 6830967.36 26.7 7522580.3 26.1
Receives support to be physically active Strongly agree 165187.5 5.0 790384.8 3.1 955572.3 3.3 <.001
Somewhat agree 771864.3 23.6 4999807 19.6 5771671.3 20.0
Somewhat disagree 1701320.8 51.9 13239604.5 51.8 14940925.3 51.8
Strongly disagree 638092.8 19.5 6524467.4 25.5 7162560.2 24.8
Has enough energy to be physically active Strongly agree 878143.32 25.6 7888364.37 31.1 8766507.69 30.4 <.001
Somewhat agree 1969322.26 57.5 14427542.27 56.8 16396864.53 56.9
Somewhat disagree 484760.1 14.1 2647277.67 10.4 3132037.77 10.9
Strongly disagree 93998.87 2.7 441320.34 1.7 535319.21 1.9
Has enough time to be physically active Strongly agree 687973 20.0 5983834.5 23.6 6671807.5 23.1 0.066
Somewhat agree 1961285.3 57.0 13972368.6 55.0 15933653.9 55.3
Somewhat disagree 685402.3 19.9 4749147.1 18.7 5434549.4 18.8
Strongly disagree 106408 3.1 684310.5 2.7 790718.5 2.7
Can afford to be physically active Strongly agree 549635.1 16.9 6483431.8 25.3 7033066.9 24.4 <.001
Somewhat agree 1929996 59.3 14848993.4 58.1 16778989.4 58.2
Somewhat disagree 634826.5 19.5 3572545.6 14.0 4207372.1 14.6
Strongly disagree 139338.8 4.3 671962.1 2.6 811300.9 2.8
Neighbourhood has several free/low-cost facilities Strongly agree 865148.06 28.1 9124212.2 35.4 9989360.26 34.6 <.001
Somewhat agree 1649956.33 53.5 13467874.05 52.3 15117830.38 52.4
Somewhat disagree 478851.81 15.5 2564759.97 10.0 3043611.78 10.6
Strongly disagree 87922.57 2.9 592004.21 2.3 679926.78 2.4
Has confidence in ability to be physically active Strongly agree 1005478.9 29.6 9854006.7 38.7 10859485.6 37.7 <.001
Somewhat agree 1959451.9 57.7 13669967.4 53.7 15629419.3 54.2
Somewhat disagree 338191.5 10.0 1595908.7 6.3 1934100.2 6.7
Strongly disagree 91420.7 2.7 316303.3 1.2 407724 1.4
Enjoys physical activity Strongly agree 1012888.25 29.7 9921909.78 39.0 10934798.03 37.9 <.001
Somewhat agree 2099144.11 61.6 13786627.89 54.2 15885772 55.1
Somewhat disagree 264094.29 7.8 1558592.06 6.1 1822686.35 6.3
Strongly disagree 29473.81 0.9 157999.01 0.6 187472.82 0.7
Has access to showers at or near work No 1092824.2 38.8 9632549.4 37.0 10725373.6 37.2 0.246
Yes 1067459 37.9 10850832.2 41.7 11918291.2 41.3
Not applicable 654242.6 23.2 5532821.8 21.3 6187064.4 21.5
Number of social and built environmental barriers 0 1462692.8 56.1 16429488.58 62.7 17892181.38 62.1 0.008
1 773658.62 29.7 7132026.4 27.2 7905685.02 27.4
2 295804.26 11.3 2230102.5 8.5 2525906.76 8.8
3 76816.96 2.9 430139.07 1.6 506956.03 1.8
Number of individual barriers 0 1464091 51.2 15219868.1 58.6 16683959.1 57.9 <.001
1 704910.6 24.7 5666590.8 21.8 6371501.4 22.1
2 338786 11.9 2809016.3 10.8 3147802.3 10.9
3+ 350239.8 12.3 2277226.8 8.8 2627466.6 9.1
Number of motivation-related individual barriers 0 2470805.43 77.0 21145223.89 82.5 23616029.32 81.9 <.001
1 521035.59 16.2 2897694.48 11.3 3418730.07 11.9
2 144692.07 4.5 1167901.15 4.6 1312593.22 4.6
3+ 72745.72 2.3 410630.87 1.6 483376.59 1.7
Number of resource-related individual barriers 0 1751483.9 56.2 16547853.6 64.3 18299337.5 63.5 <.001
1 857618.7 27.5 6051014.9 23.5 6908633.6 24.0
2 383543.5 12.3 2504463.2 9.7 2888006.7 10.0
3+ 122321.8 3.9 612429.6 2.4 734751.4 2.5
Number of motivation-related individual barriers (continuous) Mean (SE) 0.321 0.02 0.238 0.01 0.26 0.01 <.001
95% CI [0.285, 0.356] [0.238, 0.266] [0.247, 0.273]
Number of resource-related individual barriers (continuous) Mean (SE) 0.639 0.03 0.502 0.01 0.516 0.01 <.001
95% CI [0.588, 0.690] [0.482, 0.521] [0.498, 0.535]