Local Labor Market Fluctuations and Physical Activity among Adults in the United States, 1990–2009

Table 2

Estimated associations between local labor market conditions and physical activity, 1990–2009.

	Hours of physical activity per month	Any physical activity in the survey month	Hours of physical activity per month among existing exercisers (hours > 0)	Hours of physical activity per month among regular exercisers (hours ≥ 10)
Monthly county unemployment rate	−0.1849***	0.0002	−0.2473***	−0.2582***
	(0.0335)	(0.0005)	(0.0423)	(0.0486)
Sample size	1,805,997	1,805,997	1,300,052	918,211

Note. (a) Individual data is from Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 1990–2009 waves. (b) Monthly county unemployment rate is from US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. (c) The treatment variable in all models is monthly county unemployment rate. (d) All models are OLS and control for individual characteristics (i.e., gender, age, race/ethnicity, education, and marital status) and county and year/month fixed effects. (e) Estimated standard error of coefficient is in parentheses. Eicker-Huber-White sandwich estimator is used to calculate standard error clustered at county level. (f) ^*𝑃<0.05, ^**𝑃<0.01, ^***𝑃<0.001.