Table 1
Age- and sex-standardized prevalence of sociodemographic, lifestyle, physical activity and weight-related characteristics, by Street Smart Walk Score^® category, urban and suburban population aged 20 or older, Ontario, 1996/1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008 combined

Table 1.
Age- and sex-standardized prevalence of sociodemographic, lifestyle, physical activity and weight-related characteristics, by Street Smart Walk Score® category, urban and suburban population aged 20 or older, Ontario, 1996/1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008 combined
Table summary
This table displays the results of Age- and sex-standardized prevalence of sociodemographic. The information is grouped by Characteristics (appearing as row headers), Street Smart Walk Score® category (score) (appearing as column headers).
Characteristics	Street Smart Walk Score^® category (score)
Characteristics	Very car-dependent (less than 25)	Car-dependent (25 to 49)	Somewhat walkable (50 to 69)	Very walkable (70 to 89)	"Walker's Paradise"^Note † (90 or more)
Sample size	32,197	31,384	23,586	14,800	4,370
Sociodemographic characteristics
Age, mean (years)	46.2	46.2	46.2	46.2	46.2
Age group (%)
20 to 44	51.6	51.6	51.6	51.6	51.6
45 to 64	31.4	31.4	31.4	31.4	31.4
65 or older	17.0	17.0	17.0	17.0	17.0
Male (%)	48.8	48.8	48.8	48.8	48.8
Area-based household income quintile (%)
1 (lowest)	5.3^Note **	13.6^Note **	23.4^Note **	36.4	34.8
2	11.2^Note **	19.2	25.4^Note **	24.2^Note **	17.4
3	21.0^Note **	22.4^Note **	21.4^Note **	14.8	15.9
4	27.1^Note **	23.8^Note **	17.1^Note **	12.2	12.7
5 (highest)	35.4^Note **	20.9	12.6^Note **	12.4^Note **	19.1
Household income adequacy (%)
1 (lowest)	4.3^Note **	5.1^Note **	7.1^Note **	9.5^Note **	12.3
2	12.4^Note **	14.0^Note **	16.8	19.0	17.5
3	27.5^Note *	28.3^Note *	29.2^Note **	28.9^Note **	25.2
4 (highest)	38.3^Note **	35.9^Note **	29.1	26.5	28.3
Less than secondary graduation (%)	14.4	15.4	17.3^Note *	18.2^Note *	15.0
Immigrant (%)	21.7^Note **	33.3^Note **	39.9^Note **	44.5	44.8
Race/Ethnicity (%)
White	89.7^Note **	79.2^Note **	73.8	71.6	71.5
Chinese	1.6^Note **	3.8^Note **	4.8^Note **	4.3^Note **	7.1
South Asian	2.1^Note **	5.7	7.0^Note *	6.8	5.2
Black	1.1^Note **	2.8	3.6	3.9	3.6
Other	5.5^Note **	8.5^Note **	10.8^Note *	13.4	12.6
Not married or common-law (%)	28.0^Note **	31.6^Note **	35.2^Note **	40.8^Note **	48.7
Lifestyle and risk factors
Current smoker (%)	21.8^Note **	22.5^Note **	24.2	25.6	25.4
Alcohol consumption (%)
Regular drinker	65.5^Note *	62.3	57.9^Note *	55.7^Note **	61.8
Occasional drinker	17.6^Note **	18.8^Note **	18.2^Note *	19.2^Note **	14.9
Former drinker	11.4	10.9^Note *	12.9	13.4	13.0
Did not drink in past 12 months	5.4^Note **	8.0^Note *	11.0	11.8	10.3
Inadequate fruit/vegetable consumption (less than 3 times/day) (%)	22.3	22.7	23.9	23.6	23.3
Weak sense of community belonging (%)	34.6^Note **	37.8^Note **	39.3^Note *	40.7	41.9
Psychosocial stress (%)	23.4	24.3	24.4	24.2	24.4
Physical activity and weight-related outcomes
Walk to work, school, errands (hours/week) (%)
Less than 1	44.9^Note **	44.9^Note **	42.2^Note **	39.7^Note **	31.1
1 to 5	30.9^Note **	32.0^Note **	34.1^Note **	35.2^Note **	41.9
More than 5	24.2^Note *	23.1^Note **	23.7^Note *	25.0	27.0
More than 15 minutes leisure physical activity per day (%)	36.7	33.5	32.3^Note *	32.7^Note *	35.2
Leisure physical activity (%)
Inactive	49.8^Note **	54.2	57.1	56.6	54.7
Moderately active	25.7	24.2	23.0	23.2	24.3
Active	24.5^Note *	21.5	20.0	20.2	21.0
Sit most of day (%)	24.3^Note **	26.9^Note **	27.7^Note **	29.4^Note *	32.5
BMI, mean (kg/m²)	25.9^Note **	25.7^Note **	25.5^Note **	25.4^Note **	24.8
Overweight (including obese) (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m²) (%)	52.4^Note **	50.0^Note **	48.9^Note **	46.5^Note **	42.4
Obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m²) (%)	16.5^Note **	15.7^Note **	14.5^Note **	14.6^Note **	10.4
Note † reference category Return to note † referrer Note * signficantly different from reference category (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note significantly different from reference category (p < 0.01) Return to note referrer Notes: All estimates were weighted by the survey sample weight. Because this table reports age- and sex-standardized estimates, age and sex distributions are identical across the five walkability categories. Sources: 1996/1997 National Population Health Survey, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008 Canadian Community Health Survey (combined).

Date modified:: 2015-11-27

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Table 1
Age- and sex-standardized prevalence of sociodemographic, lifestyle, physical activity and weight-related characteristics, by Street Smart Walk Score^® category, urban and suburban population aged 20 or older, Ontario, 1996/1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008 combined

Table 1 Age- and sex-standardized prevalence of sociodemographic, lifestyle, physical activity and weight-related characteristics, by Street Smart Walk Score® category, urban and suburban population aged 20 or older, Ontario, 1996/1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008 combined

Table 1
Age- and sex-standardized prevalence of sociodemographic, lifestyle, physical activity and weight-related characteristics, by Street Smart Walk Score^® category, urban and suburban population aged 20 or older, Ontario, 1996/1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008 combined