Midwest | Northeast | South | West | |
Per cent of exercise-related tweets (logged) | −0.222* | −0.839** | −0.488*** | −0.913*** |
0.127 | 0.402 | 0.107 | 0.205 | |
Tweet sentiment towards exercise | 0.003 | −0.011 | 0.001 | −0.026*** |
0.005 | 0.016 | 0.004 | 0.008 | |
Average exercise intensity, via Tweets | −0.003** | 0.010* | 0.0003 | −0.002 |
0.002 | 0.006 | 0.001 | 0.003 | |
'Fitness centre' Google search index | −0.090*** | −0.014 | 0.043 | 0.017 |
0.03 | 0.015 | 0.037 | 0.04 | |
'Weight loss' Google search index | 0.142*** | 0.055 | 0.063 | −0.011 |
−0.044 | −0.036 | −0.044 | −0.088 | |
Median age | 0.035* | −0.002 | −0.073*** | −0.012 |
0.021 | 0.059 | 0.018 | 0.025 | |
Median household income (in 1000s) | −0.076*** | −0.059*** | −0.101*** | −0.048*** |
0.011 | 0.017 | 0.007 | 0.013 | |
Per cent non-Hispanic black | −0.026 | 0.032 | −0.014** | 0.216*** |
0.026 | 0.041 | 0.006 | 0.081 | |
Per cent Hispanic | 0.039** | 0.074** | −0.026*** | 0.016 |
0.017 | 0.029 | 0.007 | 0.012 | |
Per cent with access to exercise space | −0.027*** | −0.038*** | −0.028*** | −0.037*** |
0.005 | 0.014 | 0.004 | 0.007 | |
Driving death rate | 1.073*** | 1.128** | 0.902*** | 1.131*** |
0.188 | 0.502 | 0.145 | 0.221 | |
Violent crime rate | −0.0002 | 0.0002 | −0.0002 | 0.001 |
0.001 | 0.002 | 0.0004 | 0.001 | |
Constant | 30.847*** | 29.785*** | 33.294*** | 32.998*** |
3.421 | 5.734 | 4.121 | 6.458 | |
Observations | 909 | 213 | 1300 | 383 |
Adjusted R2 | 0.527 | 0.380 | 0.634 | 0.616 |
SD, random intercept | 1.332 | 0.319 | 1.791 | 2.299 |
Note: *p<0.1; **p<0.05; ***p<0.01.