Sociodemographic inequities associated with participation in leisure-time physical activity in sub-Saharan Africa: an individual participant data meta-analysis

Table 1 Study design and population characteristics of included population health surveys

Study (reference)	Study period	Geographical scope	Sample size^a (N)	Income group	HDI	GDP per capita (US$)	Urban population (%)
DRC [13]	2005	Subnational	1502	Low	0.364	218.5	37.5
Guinea [14]	2009	Subnational	2125	Low	0.380	615.1	34.4
Togo [21]	2010	National	2051	Low	0.457	487.9	37.5
Liberia [16]	2011	National	2206	Low	0.416	379.7	48.2
Zanzibar [20]	2011	Subnational	2640	Low	0.504	733.4	28.8
Tanzania [19]	2012	National	5525	Low	0.513	820.2	29.5
Seychelles [17]	2013	National	1232	Upper-middle	0.766	14,764.9	53.2
South Africa [18]	2013	Subnational	1014	Upper-middle	0.660	6822.5	63.8
Uganda [22]	2014	National	3543	Low	0.488	702.8	15.8
Kenya [15]	2015	National	4184	Low-middle	0.555	1355.0	25.6

DRC Democratic Republic of Congo, Income group World Bank income group, HDI Human Development Index, GDP per capita Global domestic product per capita, Urban population: Percentage of the total population living in urban areas.
World Bank income group, HDI, GDP per capita and urban population data relates to year of study [30,31,32,33], Zanzibar taken from data reported for Tanzania in 2011 as no regional specific data was available.
^aSample size is the sample size after data cleaning was completed and those with no or invalid information on variables of interest removed

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