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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of participants by city

From: Using combined Global Position System and accelerometer data points to examine how built environments and gentrification are associated with physical activity in four Canadian cities

Ā 

Montreala

Saskatoon

Vancouver

Victoria

Data collection period

July 10th 2018-Feb 10th 2019

Oct 2nd 2018-Feb 21th 2019

May 2nd 2018-Dec 16th 2018

May 31st 2017-Dec 3rd 2017

Participant n (Health Survey)

1155

316

334

281

Participants n (SenseDoc)

159

85

150

160

Participants n (Analysis)

157

78

150

152

Ā 

Median (25th -75th percentile)

Count of accelerometer tracking days

11

(10ā€“11)

10

(9ā€“11)

11

(10ā€“11)

11

(10ā€“11)

Hours of recording/day

5.3

(2.5ā€“9.0)

9.7

(5.3ā€“13.2)

5.7

(2.8ā€“9.4)

8.1

(4.4ā€“11.7)

Age group

n (percent)

Ā  18ā€“24Ā years

7

4%

9

11%

1

1%

6

4%

Ā  25ā€“44Ā years

82

52%

50

59%

16

11%

76

50%

Ā  45ā€“64Ā years

56

36%

17

21%

74

49%

56

37%

Ā  65ā€‰+ā€‰years

12

8%

2

2%

59

39%

15

10%

Ā  Missing

0

0%

7

8%

0

0%

0

0%

Gender

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā 

Ā  Woman

95

61%

60

71%

101

67%

77

51%

Ā  Man

60

38%

24

28%

49

33%

72

47%

Ā  Transgender/Non-binary

2

1%

1

1%

0

0%

3

2%

Raceb

Ā  White

146

93%

66

78%

130

87%

139

91%

Ā  Black

2

1%

3

4%

1

1%

0

0%

Ā  Indigenous

0

0%

3

4%

1

1%

2

1%

Ā  Latinx/Latin American

4

3%

3

4%

5

3%

1

1%

Ā  West Asian

0

0%

1

1%

0

0%

0

0%

Ā  Asian

10

6%

8

9%

10

7%

11

7%

Ā  Other

3

2%

3

4%

7

5%

0

0%

Household income

Ā  <ā€‰$50,000

26

17%

37

44%

22

15%

25

16%

Ā  $50,000- $99,999

52

33%

19

22%

36

24%

55

36%

Ā  $100,000ā€‰+ā€‰

79

50%

29

34%

92

61%

72

47%

  1. aĀ Montreal recruited potential Sensedoc participants at random from the Health Survey because we did not have sufficient devices to allow any interested participant to use a Sensedoc
  2. bĀ Racial categories are not mutually exclusive, participants can identify with more than one racial group. In addition, race or ethnicity were not asked consistently across study sites. We created 'West Asian' group from people who identified as Middle Eastern in Victoria or Vancouver and West Asian or Arab in Saskatoon or Montreal. The 'Asian' racial group includes people who identified as Asian in Victoria or Vancouver and Chinese, South Asian, South East Asian, Filipino, Korean, or Japanese in Saskatoon or Montreal. In multivariable analysis, race was a binary variable (white or Caucasian, Visible Minority and/or Indigenous)