Physical activity: adults achieving the recommended level by SIMD quintile
Chart 1 shows the percentage of adults aged 16 years and over in the 2003 Scottish Health Survey who were achieving the recommended level of physical activity per week by Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) quintile. SIMD is the Scottish Executive's official measure of area based multiple deprivation. It can be seen that there was no clear trend across the SIMD quintiles, although for both men and women the lowest percentage meeting the recommended level was in quintile 5 (the most deprived).
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