Table 2 |
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Socioeconomic characteristics of study participants |
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| Category |
Frequency (%) |
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| Working situation |
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| Employed |
616 (47.2) |
| Retired |
333 (25.5) |
| Other* |
357 (27.3) |
| Missing |
16 |
| Financial situation |
|
| Find it a strain to get by from week to week |
233 (17.9) |
| Have to be careful about money |
680 (52.2) |
| Able to manage without much difficulty |
299 (23.0) |
| Quite comfortably off |
90 (6.9) |
| Missing |
20 |
| Housing tenure |
|
| Owner-occupied |
678 (51.6) |
| Social rented |
543 (41.3) |
| Other† |
93 (7.1) |
| Missing |
8 |
| Cars or vans available to household |
|
| None |
629 (48.4) |
| One |
525 (40.4) |
| Two or more |
146 (11.2) |
| Missing |
22 |
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n = 1322. * On a government training scheme, full-time student, unemployed, disabled, invalid or permanently sick, or caring for home and family or dependants. † Rented in the private sector, part-owned and part-rented, or other form of tenure. |
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Ogilvie et al. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2008 5:43 doi:10.1186/1479-5868-5-43 |
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