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Table 5 Correlation of local authority resources and individual factors with commuting physical activity

From: Municipal resources to promote adult physical activity - a multilevel follow-up study

Multilevel mixed-effects ordered logistic regression

Commuting physical activity

Null model

Municipal resources model

Full model

  

OR

CI95

OR

CI95

Year, reference 2000

 

0.66**

0.50–0.86

0.36***

0.25–0.51

Municipalities’ resources

 Park hectares/1000 inhabitants

 

1.01

0.95–1.07

1.01

0.96–1.07

 Km of ways for pedestrians and bicycles/1000 inhabitants

 

1.07

0.93–1.22

1.07

0.93–1.23

 NR of organisation receiving grants/1000 inhabitants

 

0.86

0.68–1.09

0.85

0.67–1.07

 € used for sport and outdoor recreation/inhabitant

 

1.00

1.00–1.00

1.00

1.00–1.01

Municipal type, reference urban

 Semi-urban

 

0.64

0.39–1.05

0.71

0.44–1.15

 Rural

 

0.36***

0.20–0.66

0.38***

0.21–0.68

Age

   

1.06***

1.04–1.08

Gender, reference male

   

3.16***

2.36–4.16

Education, reference no vocational education at all

 Training or technical certificate for courses completed

   

1.08

0.63–1.85

 Vocational school

   

0.86

0.52–1.41

 A technical college or special vocational qualification

   

0.67

0.40–1.12

 A degree of higher vocational qualification

   

0.69

0.37–1.27

 A higher university qualification

   

1.40

0.79–2.46

Health, reference poor

 Rather poor

   

0.69

0.09–5.40

 Moderate

   

0.91

0.13–6.42

 Rather good

   

1.25

0.18–8.73

 Good

   

1.21

0.17–8.43

Municipal-level variance (Standard Error)

0.505(0.168)

0.153 (0.105)

0.164 (0.106)

Individual-level variance (Standard Error)

4.070 (0.433)

4.076 (0.433)

3.579 (0.398)

Municipal-level intraclass correlation

0.133

0.044

0.048

Individual-level intraclass correlation

0.552

0.553

0.521

Number of observations

2788

2788

2774

Number of groups (individuals)

1394

1394

1394

Observation per group: minimum/average/maximum

2/2/2

2/2/2

1/2/2

Number of groups (municipalities)

110

110

110

Observation per group (per municipality): min/average/max

2/25.3/304

2/25.3/304

2/25.2/303

Wald chi2/Prob>chi2

 

44.78***

144.01***

Linear regression test vs. ologit regression

413.76***

336.47***

282.61***

  1. *p ≤ 0.05
  2. **p ≤ 0.01
  3. ***p ≤ 0.001