Patterns of walking for transport and exercise: a novel application of time use data
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Patterns of walking for transport and exercise: a novel application of time use data Catrine Tudor-Locke*1, Michael Bittman2, Dafna Merom3 and Adrian Bauman3,4 Address: 1Department of Exercise and Wellness, Arizona State University East, Mesa, Arizona, USA, 2Social Policy and Research Centre, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 3School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and 4School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Email: Catrine Tudor-Locke* - [email protected]; Michael Bittman - [email protected]; Dafna Merom - [email protected]; Adrian Bauman - [email protected] * Corresponding author
Published: 17 May 2005 International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2005, 2:5 doi:10.1186/1479-5868-2-5
Received: 15 September 2004 Accepted: 17 May 2005
This article is available from: http://www.ijbnpa.org/content/2/1/5 © 2005 Tudor-Locke et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Abstract Background: Walking for exercise is a purposeful or structured activity that can be captured relatively easily in surveys focused on leisure time activity. In contrast, walking for transport is an incidental activity that is likely to be missed using these same assessment approaches. Therefore, the purpose of this analysis was to utilize 1997 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Time Use Survey diary data to describe nationally representative patterns of walking for transport and for exercise. Methods: Household members ≥ 15 years of age were recruited from over 4,550 randomly selected private dwellings in Australia. Time use diaries were collected for two designated days during all four seasons over the calendar year. 3,471 males and 3,776 females (94% household response rate and 84% person response rate) provided 14,315 diary days of data. The raw diary data were coded and summarized into bouts and minutes that included walking for transport and for exercise. Results: Walking for transport was indicated on a higher proportion of days compared to walking for exercise (20 vs. 9%). Based on participant sub-samples ('doers'; those actually performing the activity) walking for transport was performed over 2.3 ± 1.4 bouts/day (12.5 minutes/bout) for a total of ≈28 mins/day and walking for exercise over 1.2 ± 0.5 bouts/day (47 minutes/bout) for a total of ≈56 mins/day. Conclusion: Although walking for transport is typically undertaken in multiple brief bouts, accumulated durations approximate public health guidelines for those who report any walking for transport.
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