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Table 6 Relationship between area-level SES and type of urbanization with average number of steps per day

From: Relationships between area-level socioeconomic status and urbanization with active transportation, independent mobility, outdoor time, and physical activity among Canadian children

Independent variables

Dependent variable: steps per day

Girls

Boys

B

95% CI

p

B

95% CI

p

Fixed Effects

  (Intercept)

11,238.91

10,027.93–12,449.88

< 0.001

12,811.19

11,529.94–14,092.44

< 0.001

 School SES: low (ref: high)

− 331.50

− 1291.55 - 628.56

0.502

− 380.06

− 1357.45 - 597.32

0.449

 Site: Vancouver (ref: Ottawa)

518.26

− 630.67 - 1667.18

0.381

− 144.87

− 1339.18 - 1049.45

0.813

 Site: Trois-Rivières

− 165.61

− 1384.79 - 1053.57

0.791

301.87

− 955.33 - 1559.08

0.640

 Type of urbanization: suburban (ref: urban)

266.78

− 876.33 - 1409.88

0.649

89.97

− 1072.09 - 1252.04

0.880

 Type of urbanization: rural

−78.52

− 1250.97 - 1093.93

0.896

154.67

− 1060.84 - 1370.17

0.804

 Parental education: high school or less (ref: University)

217.16

− 501.66 - 935.98

0.556

−459.46

− 1406.80 - 487.87

0.346

 Parental education: college

93.23

−452.51 - 638.96

0.739

− 397.81

− 1081.85 - 286.23

0.259

 Age in years (centered)

−56.42

− 288.97 - 176.12

0.636

−478.02

−778.04 - -178.00

0.003

 Car ownership: ≥ 2 cars (ref: ≤ 1 car)

136.17

− 328.47 - 600.81

0.568

185.22

− 432.94 - 803.38

0.559

 Home ownership: yes (ref: no)

−65.26

−597.69 - 467.16

0.811

183.09

− 523.90 - 890.08

0.614

Random Effects

 σ2

10,316,244.723

14,336,948.928

 τ00, School_ID

1,673,547.941

1,455,090.348

 NSchool_ID

37

37

 ICCSchool_ID

0.140

0.092

 Observations

935

764

 R2 / Ω02

0.167 / 0.160

0.140 / 0.129

 AIC

17,836.433

14,823.427

 Deviance

17,810.433

14,797.427

  1. B Unstandardized beta coefficient, CI Confidence interval, p p-value, SES Socioeconomic status, σ2 variance within cluster groups (schools), τ00 variance within the dependent variable between schools, N Number of schools, ICC Intraclass correlation coefficient, R2 / Ω02 pseudo R2 estimates, AIC Akaike information criterion