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Table 4 Class centres on classification variables

From: A foresight whole systems obesity classification for the English UK biobank cohort

 

Younger, urban hard-pressed

Comfortable, fit families

Healthy, active and retirees

Content, rural and retirees

Comfortable professionals

Stressed and not in work

Deprived with less healthy lifestyles

Active manual workers

Full classification sample

Age

50.5

48.0

61.5

62.5

54.1

60.9

60.9

52.6

56.3

Recreational PC use (hours)

1.40

0.99

0.96

0.95

1.06

0.72

1.02

0.92

1.0

TV watching (hours)

1.92

2.06

2.60

2.82

2.20

3.77

3.86

2.81

2.7

Smoking Duration (years)

6.03

3.21

4.40

4.98

5.55

1.13

34.64

9.44

7.9

Household Size (people)

2.91

3.87

1.97

2.03

1.83

2.15

1.98

2.68

2.5

Leisure and Social Activities (count)

0.99

0.98

1.36

1.37

0.94

0.68

0.78

0.93

1.0

Sleep Duration (hours)

6.99

7.17

7.16

7.44

6.90

7.28

7.25

6.97

7.2

Stress (count)

2.69

2.25

2.55

2.13

2.58

2.99

2.89

2.29

2.5

Metabolic Equivalent of task (score)

8.38

9.09

13.24

11.81

6.84

4.74

7.54

22.04

9.9

Mean Hand Grip Strengtha

0.18

0.58

−0.24

−0.05

0.19

−0.65

−0.32

0.36

0.0

Peak Expiratory Flow1

0.29

0.67

−0.23

− 0.01

0.29

− 0.53

− 0.55

0.18

0.0

Time Outdoors in Winter (hours)

1.33

1.21

2.47

2.18

0.95

1.45

2.00

5.37

1.9

Time Outdoors in Summer (hours)

2.57

2.77

4.55

4.64

2.15

3.24

4.23

7.43

3.7

Vehicles per household member

0.44

0.56

0.67

0.92

1.04

0.63

0.63

0.76

0.7

Greenspace within 1000 m (%)

22.6

53.9

31.2

65.1

51.7

42.6

40.7

46.0

45.5

Pulse Rate (bpm)

68.89

67.46

67.35

67.26

68.87

73.60

71.53

67.59

69.0

Townsend Deprivation (score)

8.11

3.57

6.07

3.00

4.07

5.21

6.32

5.40

5.0

Length of Working Week (hours)

31.9

33.2

8.5

5.1

37.9

7.1

9.5

37.4

20.8

Food estab. Within 1000 m (count)

157.8

18.1

71.5

10.2

22.6

34.2

46.7

33.7

47.6

Vegetable Consumption (tablespoon/day)

4.94

4.56

7.30

5.26

4.55

4.07

4.26

4.84

5.0

Fruit Consumption (pieces/day)

2.91

2.69

5.44

3.49

2.88

2.63

2.02

2.47

3.1

Low Fat Meat (propn meat consumption)

0.56

0.56

0.68

0.57

0.57

0.51

0.49

0.50

0.6

Alcohol (units)

14.10

13.66

9.91

15.66

15.38

6.62

21.90

23.45

14.6

N (%)

44,118 (13%)

54,439 (16%)

39,118 (11%)

56,428 (16%)

45,273 (13%)

41,982 (12%)

37,012 (11%)

26,721 (8%)

345,091

  1. aThese variables are bi-model by gender. To correct for this each observation is standardised by the use of gender specific means and variances