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Table 7 Relationship between area-level SES and type of urbanization with average minutes of MVPA 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: MVPA per day

Girls

Boys

B

95% CI

p

B

95% CI

p

Fixed Effects

  (Intercept)

58.45

51.51–65.38

< 0.001

67.52

59.31–75.74

< 0.001

 School SES: low (ref: high)

−1.13

−6.63 - 4.36

0.687

−1.54

−7.83 - 4.74

0.632

 Site: Vancouver (ref: Ottawa)

4.73

− 1.83 - 11.28

0.163

0.96

−6.72 - 8.64

0.806

 Site: Trois-Rivières

0.57

−6.40 - 7.55

0.873

4.54

−3.53 - 12.61

0.275

 Type of urbanization: suburban (ref: urban)

1.05

−5.48 - 7.57

0.754

1.07

−6.41 - 8.56

0.779

 Type of urbanization: rural

−0.07

−6.78 - 6.63

0.983

2.50

−5.31 - 10.30

0.533

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

2.05

−2.22 - 6.32

0.352

−2.85

−8.77 - 3.08

0.351

 Parental education: college

0.68

−2.56 - 3.92

0.683

−3.66

−7.94 - 0.62

0.099

 Age in years (centered)

−1.26

−2.64 - 0.12

0.080

−3.67

−5.55 - -1.79

< 0.001

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

0.98

−1.78 - 3.74

0.490

1.45

−2.42 - 5.31

0.467

 Home ownership: yes (ref: no)

−0.48

−3.64 - 2.68

0.769

0.66

−3.77 - 5.09

0.771

Random Effects

 σ2

364.542

560.441

 τ00, School_ID

53.241

62.024

 NSchool_ID

37

37

 ICCSchool_ID

0.127

0.100

 Observations

935

764

 R2 / Ω02

0.160 / 0.153

0.153 / 0.144

 AIC

8249.166

7071.202

 Deviance

8223.166

7045.202

  1. MVPA Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, 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, ICC Intraclass correlation coefficient, R2 / Ω02 pseudo R2 estimates, AIC Akaike information criterion