Assessing the linkages between socioeconomic status, perceived personal risk, and risk factors for cardiovascular and related non-communicable diseases in a population of slum dwellers in Nairobi, Kenya

KENYA, 2008 - 2009
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

African Population and Health Research Center

CSV JSON

How much do you spend sitting? (v1456)

Data file: CVDMain_data

Overview

vald 5468

invd 2

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 0 - 14

Questions and instructions

Literal question

14.56 How much time do you usually spend sitting or reclining on a typical day (not including sleeping)

Categories

Value	Cases
0	251	4.6%
1	649	11.9%
2	1238	22.6%
3	1157	21.2%
4	952	17.4%
5	374	6.8%
6	430	7.9%
7	92	1.7%
8	141	2.6%
9	58	1.1%
10	85	1.6%
11	9	0.2%
12	20	0.4%
13	3	0.1%
14	6	0.1%
95	1	0%
99	2	0%
Sysmiss	2

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Question pretext

14.0 Risk factors and preventive behaviour.

Sedentary behaviour

The following question is about sitting or reclining at work, at home, getting to and from places, or with friends including time spent sitting at at desk, sitting with friends, travelling in car, bus, or matatu, reading, playing cards or watching television?

Question post text

Hours

Description

Text

Number of hours in day spent sitting/reclining

Universe

All DSS Residents 50 years and above