Table 2
Ranking for percentage of wear time spent sedentary (SED%), steps per day and weekly minutes spent in moderate-tovigorous intensity physical activity in bouts of 10 minutes or more (MVPAbouted), by occupational category, household population aged 18 to 79 years old working full time, Canada excluding territories, 2012 to 2017


Table 2
Ranking for percentage of wear time spent sedentary (SED%), steps per day and weekly minutes spent in moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity in bouts of 10 minutes or more (MVPAbouted), by occupational category, household population aged 18 to 79 years old working full time, Canada excluding territories, 2012 to 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Ranking for percentage of wear time spent sedentary (SED%). The information is grouped by Activity grouping and occupational category (appearing as row headers), Overall, n, SED%, Steps per day, MVPAbouted, Summary, Mean, 95% confidence interval, Rank and Score (appearing as column headers).
Activity grouping and occupational category Overall, n SED% Steps per day MVPAbouted Summary
Mean 95% confidence interval Rank Mean 95% confidence interval Rank Mean 95% confidence interval Rank Score Rank
from to from to from to
High-activity occupational group
Personal and customer information services 481 65.0 63.3 66.7 2 9,735 9,152 10,319 4 84.6 64.7 104.4 3 9 1
Industrial, construction and equipment operation trades 373 64.9 62.8 67.0 1 10,080 9,302 10,859 2 58.6Note E: Use with caution 34.8 82.3 8 11 2
Workers and labourers in transport and construction 219 65.8 63.2 68.4 3 10,006 9,391 10,620 3 59.8Note E: Use with caution 34.8 84.8 7 13 3
Intermediate-activity occupational group
Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations 111 66.2 62.2 70.2 4 10,717 8,391 13,042 1 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published 10 15 4
Sales 343 68.5 66.7 70.2 6 9,285 8,257 10,313 6 78.0 51.8 104.2 4 16 5
Administration and administrative support occupations 436 72.1 71.1 73.2 9 8,330 7,850 8,811 8 88.1 68.5 107.8 2 19 6
Occupations in manufacturing and utilities 231 67.5 65.5 69.5 5 9,334 8,527 10,140 5 55.3Note E: Use with caution 23.0 87.7 9 19 7
Low-activity occupational group
Technical and paraprofessional occupations 444 69.0 67.3 70.7 7 8,319 7,697 8,941 9 77.8 57.9 97.7 5 21 8
Management 466 70.2 68.6 71.7 8 8,599 7,922 9,275 7 71.6 56.4 86.7 6 21 9
Professional 976 72.3 71.4 73.2 10 8,268 7,917 8,619 10 101.1 86.1 116.1 1 21 10
Total 4,080 68.9 68.3 69.6 Note ...: not applicable 8,984 8,719 9,249 Note ...: not applicable 79.5 71.1 87.9 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable
E use with caution
F too unreliable to be published
Notes: Ranking of occupations is based on summary score. Summary score is derived from all three accelerometer-derived variables: steps, MVPAbouted, SED%. In the case of a tie, a higher rank of MVPAbouted was used.
Source: Canadian Health Measures Survey.

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