ACTGHS sedentary behaviour walking/labour, adults
Please note that these indicators are not currently up to date and will be replaced shortly with dashboards. In the meantime the most currently available data is available at https://www.data.act.gov.au or contact healthinfo@act.gov.au
Commentary
27.6% of respondents to the 2022 ACT General Health Survey reported that they spent most of their usual day walking or doing heavy labour/physically demanding work. Males were slightly more likely to report that they spent most of their usual day walking or doing heavy labour/physically demanding work than females in 2022, however this difference was not statistically significant (males: 30.5%; females: 24.6%).
For the purpose of reporting the ACT General Health Survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.
The question refers to a usual working day. For those who do not work, it refers to what they consider a usual day.
Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.
Respondents to the 2022 survey were aged 18 years and over. Persons includes respondents who identified as male, female, other and those who refused to answer and may not always add to the sum of male and female.
Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.
Chart
Proportion of adults aged 18 years and over who mostly walk/do heavy labour or physically demanding work on a usual day, ACT General Health Survey, 2018-2022
Data
To access the data, select "View source data" link at the bottom of the visualisation. This link will open up a data table that you can download.
Codes and sources
Q. How do you usually spend most of your day?
mostly sitting
mostly standing
mostly walking
mostly doing heavy labour or physically demanding work
don't know
refused
Don't know and refused responses were excluded from analysis.
A copy of the ACT General Health Survey questionnaires can be found in Data collections.