Table 3

Percentage of women living in urban and rural regions of the US who are sedentary and regularly active, by sociodemographic factors

		% Sedentary			% Regularly active
		Urban	Rural		χ²	Urban	Rural	χ²
Overall	48.7	56.0	^3-16012.21	10.2	8.5	1.76
Geographical region
West	50.9	43.3	2.57	9.4	17.4	^3-1506.37
Northeast	44.7	51.6	0.11	5.3	9.7	0.06
Midwest	53.5	53.1	0.00	8.2	10.6	0.44
South	45.7	60.2	^3-16027.03	11.9	5.7	^3-16016.19
Race/ethnicity
White	44.2	48.5	0.91	11.9	9.3	0.75
African American	53.5	60.3	2.70	7.5	4.7	1.62
Hispanic	48.5	42.3	1.04	11.6	20.7	5.06
American Indian/Alaskan Native	48.6	59.5	1.27	8.1	7.8	0.06
Age (y)
40–49	42.8	51.4	^3-1507.15	12.8	8.0	5.12
50–59	45.2	56.5	^3-1507.35	11.0	8.8	0.61
60–69	53.4	56.5	0.35	7.2	10.4	1.10
70+	63.3	67.1	^3-16039.46	6.2	6.3	0.03
Education
< high school	54.4	66.8	^3-1608.87	8.8	6.9	0.51
High school graduate	57.1	56.0	0.04	8.3	7.9	0.00
Some college/technical	45.2	53.7	3.27	11.5	7.9	1.45
College graduate +	38.5	38.3	0.00	12.4	13.4	0.04

↵3-150 p<0.01.
↵3-160 p<0.001. The proportion of women who are underactive can be obtained by summing the proportion sedentary and the proportion regularly active and subtracting from 100.