Physical activity : Physical activity - Percentage of people undertaking health-enhancing physical activity, sedentariness, walking and sitting across EU-15 countries in 2002

Percentage of people undertaking health-enhancing physical activity, sedentariness, walking and sitting across EU-15 countries in 2002 (source: Sjöström et al., 2006).

Country	Percentage people with or that (are):
	sufficient total activity	sedentary	walk 5x30 min/week	sit 6 h/day
Austria	26	36	35	37
Belgium	25	40	25	41
Denmark	34	22	48	56
Finland	33	24	43	49
France	24	43	30	34
Germany	40	24	42	43
United Kingdom	29	37	34	34
Greece	37	32	35	37
Ireland	29	35	40	33
Italy	26	35	40	47
Luxembourg	36	26	36	43
Netherlands	44	19	27	48
Portugal	33	30	29	24
Spain	25	31	51	36
Sweden	23	33	35	48
All	31	31	37	41

Remarks

Data of the Eurobarometer study of 2002 have been used to generate the data in this table. To determine the percentage of people with sufficient total activity and sedentary people they have been recalculated. (Sjöström et al., 2006). See Operationalisation of sufficient physical activity for how sufficient total activity was operationalised. Those not meeting the threshold for low activity were classified as sedentary. Low physical acivity participation was classified as 30 min of walking or moderate-intensity activity on 5 or more days, 20 min of vigorous-intesity activy on 3 or more days, or 600-2,999 total MET minutes of activity over 7 days.