Table 4
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 and gender, household population aged 18 to 79 years old working full time, Canada excluding territories, 2012 to 2017


Table 4
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 and gender, 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 Occupational category (appearing as row headers), SED%, Steps per day, MVPAbouted, Summary, Number, Mean, 95% confidence interval, Rank, p-value and Score (appearing as column headers).
Occupational category SED% Steps per day MVPAbouted Summary
Number Mean 95% confidence interval Rank p-value Mean 95% confidence interval Rank p-value Mean 95% confidence interval Rank p-value Score Rank
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Personal and customer information services
Men 172 63.4 61.3 65.4 1 NS 11,015 10,071 11,960 1 0.005 110.0Note E: Use with caution 60.5 159.5 1 NS 3 1
Women 309 66.1 63.3 68.9 2 Note ...: not applicable 8,900 8,051 9,748 3 Note ...: not applicable 68.0 45.6 90.4 5 Note ...: not applicable 10 2
Industrial, construction and equipment operation trades
Men 361 64.5 62.0 66.9 2 <.001 10,333 9,408 11,258 3 0.01 58.3Note E: Use with caution 33.6 82.9 9 NS 14 3
Women 12 73.4 70.1 76.6 10 Note ...: not applicable 5,079Note E: Use with caution 1,748 8,409 10 Note ...: not applicable Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published 6 Note ...: not applicable 26 10
Workers and labourers in transport and construction
Men 209 65.8 63.1 68.4 3 NS 10,027 9,406 10,648 4 NS 60.7Note E: Use with caution 34.7 86.6 8 NS 21 8
Women 10 67.3 57.6 77.0 4 Note ...: not applicable 9,442Note E: Use with caution 5,981 12,904 2 Note ...: not applicable Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published 9 Note ...: not applicable 15 4
Sales
Men 197 68.7 66.7 70.7 6 NS 9,743 8,201 11,285 5 NS 95.0Note E: Use with caution 56.9 133.1 3 NS 14 2
Women 146 68.2 64.6 71.7 5 Note ...: not applicable 8,752 7,265 10,239 4 Note ...: not applicable 58.2Note E: Use with caution 28.1 88.3 8 Note ...: not applicable 17 7
Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations
Men 95 66.4 61.9 70.9 4 NS 10,783 7,957 13,610 2 NS Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published 10 NS 16 4
Women 16 64.6 58.5 70.6 1 Note ...: not applicable 10,066 6,960 13,172 1 Note ...: not applicable Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published 7 Note ...: not applicable 9 1
Administration and administrative support
Men 136 72.7 70.7 74.8 9 NS 8,178 7,131 9,224 10 NS 84.6Note E: Use with caution 51.5 117.7 4 NS 23 10
Women 300 71.9 70.7 73.0 8 Note ...: not applicable 8,403 7,782 9,023 6 Note ...: not applicable 89.8 61.0 118.7 2 Note ...: not applicable 16 6
Occupations in manufacturing and utilities
Men 172 67.1 64.7 69.6 5 NS 9,621 8,704 10,537 6 NS 61.2Note E: Use with caution 20.1 102.2 7 NS 18 5
Women 59 68.7 61.3 73.2 6 Note ...: not applicable 8,300 6,681 9,920 7 Note ...: not applicable Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published 10 Note ...: not applicable 23 9
Technical and paraprofessional
Men 233 70.9 68.8 73.0 8 NS 8,197 7,512 8,882 9 NS 71.7Note E: Use with caution 42.5 101.1 5 NS 22 9
Women 211 67.1 64.3 69.9 3 Note ...: not applicable 8,436 7,162 9,710 5 Note ...: not applicable 83.6 56.6 110.7 3 Note ...: not applicable 11 3
Management
Men 307 68.9 67.0 70.7 7 0.023 9,110 8,288 9,932 7 0.016 65.6 49.5 81.7 6 NS 20 7
Women 159 72.4 70.0 74.9 9 Note ...: not applicable 7,714 6,822 8,606 9 Note ...: not applicable 82.0Note E: Use with caution 48.7 115.3 4 Note ...: not applicable 22 8
Professional
Men 506 72.8 71.5 74.0 10 NS 8,439 7,867 9,011 8 NS 109.2 86.7 131.7 2 NS 20 6
Women 470 71.8 70.6 73.0 7 Note ...: not applicable 8,099 7,540 8,657 8 Note ...: not applicable 93.1 70.7 115.5 1 Note ...: not applicable 16 5
Total
Men 2,388 68.3 67.6 69.1 Note ...: not applicable 0.009 9,446 9,137 9,754 Note ...: not applicable <.0001 79.4 66.9 91.9 Note ...: not applicable NS Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Women 1,692 69.8 68.8 70.7 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 8,361 8,008 8,713 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 79.6 68.6 90.7 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable
E use with caution
F too unreliable to be published
NS: not statistically significant (p⋝0.05)
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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