Physical Activity Patterns of Australian Adults

Full publication (289K PDF)

• Preliminary material (113K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • List of tables, figures and boxes
  • List of abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Summary (69K PDF)
• Chapters
  1. Introduction (155K PDF)
  2. Physical activity and health
  3. Physical activity measurement
  4. Survey methodology
  5. Demographic profile of survey respondents
  6. Physical activity patterns of Australian adults (177K PDF)
  7. Awareness and understanding of current physical activity media messages
  8. Trends in Australians' physical activity habits, 1997 and 1999
  9. Discussion
• End matter (153K PDF)
  • Glossary
  • Appendixes
    • Appendix 1: Membership of the AIHW Expert Working Group on the Measurement of Physical Activity as at September 1999
    • Appendix 2: 1999 National Physical Activity Survey
    • Appendix 3: Percentage of people achieving 'sufficient' levels of physical activity, 1999
    • Appendix 4: Coding frame for content-analysed questions
  • References