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Residents of central urban neighbourhoods are more physically active

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	High		Medium	Low
	Residential density
	Central urban neighbourhoods †	Peripheral urban neighbourhoods	Medium	Low
	percentage
People doing…
Non-recreational travel by foot or bicycle	42	26*	17*	14*
Indoor cleaning	21	27*	25*	25*
Gardening, yard work / outdoor cleaning	2	6*	10*	11*
Physical activity in leisure/sports	32	21*	23*	25*
At least one type of physical activity	67	57*	56*	55*
20 minutes or more of physical activity	61	50*	51*	51*
† reference group
* statistically significant difference from reference group at p < 0.05
Note: Includes only the residents of the census metropolitan areas of Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, Ottawa-Gatineau, Calgary and Edmonton.
Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2005.

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Table 2
Residents of central urban neighbourhoods are more physically active