European Review of Aging and Physical Activity

Table 9 The dependence of sports participation on the distances conditional on covariates: city sample

From: The closer the sportier? Children’s sports activity and their distance to sports facilities

	No. of observations	Sports in club			Sports not in club
	No. of observations	Unconditional	Conditional	SD	Unconditional	Conditional	SD
Gym
0–0.5 km	1,911	0.50	0.53	0.01	0.49	0.50	0.01
0.5–1 km	1,028	0.55	0.53	0.01	0.50	0.49	0.02
1–1.5 km	264	0.50	0.47	0.03	0.45	0.44	0.03
1.5–2 km	112	0.57	0.52	0.04	0.57	0.57	0.05
2–2.5 km	85	0.68	0.60	0.05	0.48	0.47	0.06
2.5–3 km	51	0.65	0.60	0.06	0.57	0.56	0.07
3–4 km	80	0.58	0.56	0.05	0.46	0.47	0.05
4–5 km	36	0.75	0.69	0.07	0.50	0.51	0.08
5+ km	27	0.52	0.47	0.09	0.59	0.58	0.10
Sports ground
0–0.5 km	1,084	0.54	0.54	0.01	0.49	0.50	0.02
0.5–1 km	1,405	0.52	0.52	0.01	0.48	0.48	0.01
1–1.5 km	687	0.53	0.53	0.02	0.51	0.50	0.02
1.5–2 km	229	0.55	0.57	0.03	0.50	0.50	0.03
2–2.5 km	71	0.54	0.49	0.05	0.51	0.51	0.06
2.5–3 km	40	0.58	0.53	0.07	0.55	0.55	0.08
3–4 km	36	0.39	0.37	0.07	0.53	0.52	0.08
4–5 km	20	0.65	0.58	0.10	0.60	0.59	0.12
5+ km	22	0.64	0.60	0.11	0.50	0.51	0.11

See note below Table 8. Efron’s Pseudo R ² is 0.16 for sports in clubs using distance to gym and 0.16 for distance to sports ground. For sports outside clubs and distance to gym Efron’s Pseudo R ² is 0.03 and for distance to sports ground 0.02

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