Table 2 Proportion of Thai adults who engaged in PA by domain in 2019
Characteristics | PA Domain | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Work-related | Transportation | Recreational | |||||||
% | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | ||||
Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | ||||
Gender | |||||||||
Male | 57.6 | 55.8 | 59.3 | 14.4 | 13.1 | 15.6 | 41.4 | 39.6 | 43.1 |
Female | 55.5 | 53.8 | 57.2 | 20.3 | 18.9 | 21.7 | 41.9 | 40.1 | 43.5 |
Age group (years) | |||||||||
Young adults (18–34) | 57.8 | 55.3 | 60.1 | 13.6 | 11.9 | 15.1 | 37.4 | 35.1 | 39.8 |
Middle age (35–64) | 58.7 | 57.1 | 60.3 | 17.6 | 16.3 | 18.7 | 42.1 | 40.4 | 43.6 |
Older adult (65+) | 46.1 | 43.0 | 49.3 | 23.7 | 21.0 | 26.3 | 47.2 | 44.0 | 50.3 |
Marital Status | |||||||||
Single | 53.0 | 50.4 | 55.7 | 15.7 | 13.8 | 17.6 | 42.7 | 40.0 | 45.3 |
Married | 58.9 | 57.4 | 60.4 | 17.3 | 16.1 | 18.4 | 40.7 | 39.2 | 42.2 |
Separated, widowed, divorced | 49.9 | 46.4 | 53.3 | 21.5 | 18.6 | 24.2 | 44.6 | 41.1 | 47.9 |
Education | |||||||||
Primary or lower | 57.1 | 55.2 | 58.9 | 21.9 | 20.3 | 23.4 | 38.3 | 36.4 | 40.0 |
Secondary | 59.3 | 57.2 | 61.3 | 14.6 | 13.1 | 16.0 | 39.5 | 37.5 | 41.5 |
Higher | 50.2 | 47.5 | 53.0 | 13.2 | 11.3 | 15.0 | 52.6 | 49.8 | 55.3 |
Occupation | |||||||||
Student | 48.0 | 40.5 | 55.5 | 20.6 | 14.5 | 26.6 | 48.6 | 41.1 | 56.0 |
Private enterprise | 55.8 | 53.2 | 58.3 | 13.3 | 11.5 | 15.0 | 44.3 | 41.7 | 46.8 |
Formal sector employee | 51.9 | 48.9 | 54.9 | 14.2 | 12.1 | 16.3 | 50.9 | 47.9 | 53.9 |
Informal sector employee | 64.5 | 61.7 | 67.2 | 16.3 | 14.2 | 18.4 | 31.9 | 29.3 | 34.6 |
Agriculture | 75.9 | 73.3 | 78.5 | 20.6 | 18.1 | 23.0 | 33.7 | 30.8 | 36.6 |
Unemployed | 40.9 | 38.3 | 43.4 | 22.5 | 20.3 | 24.7 | 45.1 | 42.4 | 47.6 |
Have a chronic disease | |||||||||
Yes | 54.4 | 52.1 | 56.5 | 18.3 | 16.5 | 20.0 | 47.9 | 45.6 | 50.1 |
No | 57.5 | 56.0 | 58.9 | 17.1 | 16.0 | 18.2 | 38.8 | 37.4 | 40.3 |
Area of residence | |||||||||
Urban | 53.7 | 52.0 | 55.4 | 18.3 | 16.9 | 19.5 | 46.7 | 45.0 | 48.3 |
Rural | 59.8 | 57.9 | 61.5 | 16.5 | 15.1 | 17.8 | 35.6 | 33.9 | 37.4 |