Measuring physical activity-related environmental factors: reliability and predictive validity of the European environmental questionnaire ALPHA

Table 1 Characteristics of the participants in the first and second field testing

	First field testing N = 190		Second field testing N = 166
Age (years)	40.52 ± 12.46		32.89 ± 12.89
BMI (kg/m²)	25.19 ± 4.37		23.94 ± 3.56
	N	%	N	%
Sex
Male	71	37.4	88	53
Female	119	62.6	78	47
Nationality
Belgian	60	31.6	58	35.2
British	66	34.7	56	33.9
French	64	33.7	-	-
Austrian	-	-	49	29.7
Living situation
with partner and children	69	36.3	53	31.9
with partner	46	24.2	37	22.3
with children	20	10.5	2	1.2
with parents	30	15.8	34	20.5
Alone	25	13.2	26	15.7
with friends/other		-	14	8.4
Higher education
Yes	95	50	135	81.3
No	95	50	31	18.7
Having a job
Yes	150	78.9	98	59.4
No	40	21.1	67	40.6
NS-SEC
Managerial and professional occupations	40	24.5	23	23.5
Intermediate occupations	84	51.5	65	66.3
Routine and manual occupations	39	23.9	10	10.2
Place of residence
Town	103	54.2	77	46.4
Outskirts of the town	61	32.1	51	30.7
Village/Countryside	26	13.7	38	22.9

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