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Table 3 Socio-demographic profiles of survey participants across neighbourhood activity centre types

From: Designing healthy communities: creating evidence on metrics for built environment features associated with walkable neighbourhood activity centres

Covariate

  

Walkability

  

Overall

(n=19,984)

N (%)

High (HW)

(n=757)

N (%)

Moderate (MW)

(n=9,259)

N (%)

Low (LW)

(n=9,968)

N (%)

Sex

Male

9,516 (47.6)

361 (47.7)

4,344 (46.9)

4,811 (48.3)

Female

10,468 (52.4)

396 (52.3)

4,915 (53.1)

5.157 (51.7)

Agea

 

46.34 (17.1)

43.13 (15.8)

46.85 (17.6)

46.10 (16.6)

Studying

Yes

2,179 (10.9)

128 (16.9)

1,097 (11.9)

954 (9.6) *

No

17,805 (89.1)

629 (83.1)

8,162 (88.2)

9.014 (90.4)

Occupation

Unemployed

6,225 (31.2)

194 (25.6)

2,932 (31.7)

3,099 (31.1)*

Casual work

1,522 ( 7.6)

54 ( 7.1)

751 (8.1)

717 (7.2)

Part-time

3,053 (15.3)

115 (15.2)

1,405 (15.2)

1,533 (15.1)

Full-time

9,184 (46.0)

394 (52.1)

4,171 (45.1)

4,619 (46.3)

Household Structure

Couple with children

7,755 (38.8)

437 (57.7)

3,867 (41.8)

3,451 (34.6) *

Couple without children

10,070 (50.1)

195 (25.8)

4,290 (46.3)

5,585 (56.0)

Other household structure

2,159 (10.8)

125 (16.5)

1,102 (11.9)

932 (9.4)

Income

<$650

2,387 (11.9)

102 (13.5)

1,194 (12.9)

1,091 (11.0) *

$650-$1099

3,227 (16.2)

105 (13.9)

1,443 (15.6)

1,679 (16.8)

$1200-$1949

3,724 (18.6)

125 (16.5)

1,584 (17.1)

2,015 (20.2)

$1950-$2499

4,357 (21.8)

132 (17.4)

1,890 (20.4)

2,335 (23.4)

$2500+

6,289 (31.5)

293 (38.7)

3,148 (34.0)

2,848 (28.6)

Own a motor vehicle

Do not own a motor

946 ( 4.7)

139 (18.4)

609 ( 6.6)

198 ( 2.00) *

Own a motor vehicle

19,038 (95.3)

618 (81.6)

8,650 (93.4)

9,770 (98.0)

Area level disadvantage b

High

5,545 (27.8)

128 (16.9)

2,535 (27.4)

2,882 (28.9) *

Medium

5,798 (29.0)

124 (16.4)

2,442 (26.4)

3,232 (32.4)

Low

8,641 (43.2)

505 (66.7)

4,282 (46.3)

3,854 (38.7)

  1. * Statistical significance between clusters assessed using chi-squared tests for categorical variables and ANOVA for continuous variables: p<0.05
  2. a Means and standard deviations presented
  3. b Based on SEIFA IRSD deciles where 1-4 indicate higher levels of area based disadvantage, 5-7 is medium and 8-10 is low