NSW Health Survey: Hunter & New England Adequate physical activity by age

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Hunter & New England Adequate physical activity by age, persons aged 16 years and over, NSW, 2001-2006

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	Hunter & New England			New South Wales
Age (years)	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females	Persons
	Prev (95% CI)	Prev (95% CI)	Prev (95% CI)	Prev (95% CI)	Prev (95% CI)	Prev ( 95% CI)
All Ages	57.8 (51.7-63.8)	51.3 (46.6-56.1)	54.5 (50.7-58.3)	60.4 (58.1-62.7)	49.6 (47.6-51.5)	54.9 (53.4-56.4)
16-24	79.3 (62.1-96.6)	63.5 (49.1-78.0)	71.6 (60.3-82.9)	72.3 (66.1-78.4)	61.4 (55.4-67.3)	67.0 (62.7-71.3)
25-34	70.2 (52.0-88.4)	61.2 (47.5-74.9)	65.6 (54.2-77.0)	67.9 (61.6-74.3)	55.7 (50.3-61.1)	61.8 (57.5-66.0)
35-44	48.2 (33.0-63.4)	55.0 (41.0-69.1)	51.5 (41.1-61.9)	60.2 (54.4-66.0)	51.7 (46.9-56.5)	56.0 (52.2-59.8)
45-54	53.6 (40.5-66.7)	49.7 (39.0-60.3)	51.6 (43.2-60.0)	57.8 (52.8-62.8)	47.6 (43.4-51.9)	52.7 (49.4-56.0)
55-64	51.6 (39.0-64.1)	44.9 (36.0-53.8)	48.1 (40.5-55.8)	55.5 (50.6-60.4)	46.5 (42.5-50.5)	51.0 (47.9-54.2)
65-74	53.8 (41.5-66.1)	48.6 (38.6-58.6)	51.2 (43.3-59.1)	51.9 (46.8-57.0)	42.5 (38.2-46.7)	47.1 (43.8-50.5)
75+	43.1 (27.0-59.2)	30.1 (19.7-40.5)	35.5 (26.4-44.6)	40.9 (35.2-46.6)	29.5 (25.4-33.7)	34.3 (30.9-37.7)

Note:	Estimates are based on 987 respondents in Hunter & New England and 7,575 in NSW. For this indicator 55 (5.28%) were ‘not stated’ (Don't know or Refused) in Hunter & New England and 387 (4.86%) were ‘not stated’ (Don't know or Refused) in NSW. The indicator includes those who did adequate physical activity. Adequate physical activity is a total of 150 minutes per week on 5 separate occasions. The total minutes were calculated by adding minutes in the last week spent walking continuously for at least 10 minutes, minutes doing moderate physical activity, plus 2 x minutes doing vigorous physical activity. The questions used to define the indicator were: In the last week, how many times have you walked continuously for at least 10 minutes for recreation or exercise or to get to or from places?, What do you estimate was the total time you spent walking in this way in the last week?, In the last week, how many times did you do any vigorous physical activity that made you breathe harder or puff and pant?, What do you estimate was the total time you spent doing this vigorous physical activity in the last week?, In the last week, how many times did you do any other more moderate physical activity that you have not already mentioned?, and What do you estimate was the total time you spent doing these activities in the last week?
Source	New South Wales Population Health Survey 2006 (HOIST). Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Department of Health.
Print version:	Although this page can be printed directly from your web browser, a higher quality version is available as a PDF file that can be printed or viewed on screen.
Downloadable files:	The data contained in the table are available for download as a CSV file and the graph is available for download as an GIF file.
Produced by:	Centre for Epidemiology and Research, Population Health Division, NSW Department of Health.
Last updated on:	1 August 2006

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