Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5671/ca.47.1.5
Exercising in India: An Exploratory Analysis Using The Time Use Survey, 2019
Mudit Kapoor
; Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India
Shamika Ravi
; Observer Research Foundation, Delhi, India
Rockli Kim
orcid.org/0000-0002-9864-3957
; Division of Health Policy and Management, College of Health Science, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
Subu V. Subramanian
orcid.org/0000-0003-2365-4165
; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Abstract
In this paper, we use the nationally representative Time Use Survey (TUS) data from India to estimate the proportion of people that spend any time of the day exercising. We found that overall, less than 7% of the adult population (age ≥18 Years) spent any time of the day exercising. Our estimates also revealed that the proportion of population exercising varied Across states, by rural and urban sectors, and by social and religious groups. We also estimated logistic regressions to Model the probability of people exercising. We found that males had three times higher odds of exercising than females. Relative to less educated people (primary school and below), those with educational level of graduate and above had almost 2.5 times higher odds of exercising. People in the higher strata of consumption class, the top 10%, had 1.7 times higher odds of exercising relative to the bottom 50%. From a public policy perspective, the low level of exercise across all geographies and social, economic, and demographic characteristics indicates the need for population-wide interventions in India to encourage exercise.
Keywords
exercise; state variation; demography; socioeconomic status; time use survey; India
Hrčak ID:
306961
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Publication date:
30.3.2023.
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