Mixed-effects regression for county-level, female-specific inactivity by region
Midwest | Northeast | South | West | |
Per cent of exercise-related tweets (logged) | −0.205 | −0.813* | −0.421*** | −0.725*** |
0.129 | 0.421 | 0.117 | 0.193 | |
Tweet sentiment towards exercise | −0.008* | −0.019 | −0.005 | −0.016** |
0.004 | 0.021 | 0.004 | 0.006 | |
Average exercise intensity, via Tweets | 0.001 | 0.01 | 0.002 | 0.0002 |
0.002 | 0.007 | 0.002 | 0.002 | |
'Fitness centre' Google search index | −0.068 | −0.042* | 0.051 | 0.015 |
0.054 | 0.025 | 0.037 | 0.036 | |
'Weight loss' Google search index | 0.019 | 0.166** | 0.136*** | 0.055 |
0.078 | 0.068 | 0.044 | 0.078 | |
Median age | −0.019 | −0.065 | −0.070*** | −0.044* |
0.02 | 0.059 | 0.018 | 0.024 | |
Median household income (in 1000s) | −0.094*** | −0.060*** | −0.105*** | −0.044*** |
0.01 | 0.018 | 0.007 | 0.013 | |
Per cent non-Hispanic black | 0.011 | 0.032 | 0.024*** | 0.274*** |
0.024 | 0.044 | 0.006 | 0.079 | |
Per cent Hispanic | 0.041** | 0.079*** | −0.028*** | 0.008 |
0.016 | 0.03 | 0.007 | 0.011 | |
Per cent with access to exercise space | −0.019*** | −0.029** | −0.027*** | −0.044*** |
0.005 | 0.014 | 0.004 | 0.007 | |
Driving death rate | 0.850*** | 1.099** | 0.912*** | 1.113*** |
0.177 | 0.537 | 0.151 | 0.217 | |
Violent crime rate | 0.001 | 0.002 | 0.0003 | 0.002** |
0.001 | 0.002 | 0.0004 | 0.001 | |
Constant | 38.536*** | 27.252*** | 30.618*** | 29.222*** |
5.267 | 7.346 | 4.201 | 5.796 | |
Observations | 888 | 214 | 1289 | 377 |
Adjusted R2 | 0.620 | 0.560 | 0.698 | 0.629 |
SD, random intercept | 2.404 | 1.075 | 1.817 | 2.033 |
Note: *p<0.1; **p<0.05; ***p<0.01.