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Table 1 Socio-demographic, lifestyle, physical activity and energy-expenditure attributes of participants in the Tomorrow Projecta.

From: Hours spent and energy expended in physical activity domains: Results from The Tomorrow Projectcohort in Alberta, Canada

 

Men

(N = 6,134)

Women

(N = 9,457)

Socio-demographic, lifestyle

  

   Age (mean [SD])

50.5 [9.1]

50.6 [9.2]

   BMI (mean [SD])

28.0 [4.3]

27.0 [5.8]

   Educationb (% >high school)

74

69

   Household annual incomec (% 60,000)

61

48

   Marital status (% with partner)

82

74

   Employment statusd

  

Full-time (%)

75

44

Part-time (%)

6

23

Not employed/homemaker/student/other (%)

6

20

Retired (%)

12

14

   Current non-smokere (%)

80

81

Daily number of hours and MET-hours of domain-specific activity (mean [SD])

   Total activity (hrs/d)

8.1 [2.8]

7.9 [2.9]

   Total activity (MET hrs/d)

25.3 [11.1]

22.9 [9.8]

   Leisure (hrs/d)

0.9 [0.8]

0.8 [0.7]

   Leisure (MET hrs/d)

4.2 [4.0]

3.5 [3.4]

   Occupational time (hrs/d)

5.6 [2.7]

3.7 [2.6]

   Occupational (MET hrs/d)

16.4 [10.5]

9.8 [8.0]

   Household activity (hrs/d)

1.6 [1.3]

3.4 [2.1]

   Household activity (MET hrs/d)

4.6 [4.0]

9.5 [6.3]

   Transportation activity (hrs/d)

< 0.1

<0.1

   Transportation activity (MET hrs/d)

0.2 [0.7]

0.1 [0.4]

Daily energy-expenditure (mean [SD])

  

   Resting energy expenditure (REE) (kcal/d)

1876 [195]

1438 [142]

   Total energy expenditure (TEE) (kcal/d)

3726 [1013]

2766 [716]

   Physical Activity Level (TEE:REE)

2.0 [0.5]

1.9 [0.4]

  1. a Includes people recruited in the first six recruitment waves (February 2001-January 2005) but excludes people who did not return a PYTPAQ (n = 2,405), pregnant women (n = 31), people who were recruited as 'second in household' in the first recruitment wave (n = 344), people with prior history of cancer (n = 33), and people with missing data on body weight or height (n = 39).
  2. b Education: 1 woman had missing data.
  3. c Household annual income (CAD): 78 men and 269 women had missing data. d Employment status: 3 men and 5 women had missing data.
  4. e Current non-smoker: those who previously smoked either daily or occasionally and were non-smokers at the time of completing baseline questionnaires; and those who never smoked in life. 1 woman had missing data.