Determinants of leisure-time physical activity: Evidence from Malaysia

This paper examines how socio-demographic and health-lifestyle factors determine participation and duration of leisure-time physical activity in Malaysia.Based on the Malaysia Non-Communicable Disease Surveillance-1 data, Heckman's sample selection model is employed to estimate the probability...

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Main Authors: Cheah, Yong Kang, Tan, Andrew K. G.
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spelling my.uum.repo.123972016-04-18T00:08:09Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/12397/ Determinants of leisure-time physical activity: Evidence from Malaysia Cheah, Yong Kang Tan, Andrew K. G. GV Recreation Leisure This paper examines how socio-demographic and health-lifestyle factors determine participation and duration of leisure-time physical activity in Malaysia.Based on the Malaysia Non-Communicable Disease Surveillance-1 data, Heckman's sample selection model is employed to estimate the probability to participate and duration on physical activity.Results indicate that gender, age, years of education and family illness history are significant in explaining participation probability in leisure-time physical activity.Gender, income level, smoking-status and years of education are significant in explaining the weekly duration conditional on participation, whereas smoking-status and years of education are significant in determining the unconditional level of leisure-time physical activity. World Scientific Publishing Co. 2014-04-11 Article PeerReviewed Cheah, Yong Kang and Tan, Andrew K. G. (2014) Determinants of leisure-time physical activity: Evidence from Malaysia. The Singapore Economic Review, 59 (02). p. 1450017. ISSN 0217-5908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0217590814500179 doi:10.1142/S0217590814500179
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic GV Recreation Leisure
spellingShingle GV Recreation Leisure
Cheah, Yong Kang
Tan, Andrew K. G.
Determinants of leisure-time physical activity: Evidence from Malaysia
description This paper examines how socio-demographic and health-lifestyle factors determine participation and duration of leisure-time physical activity in Malaysia.Based on the Malaysia Non-Communicable Disease Surveillance-1 data, Heckman's sample selection model is employed to estimate the probability to participate and duration on physical activity.Results indicate that gender, age, years of education and family illness history are significant in explaining participation probability in leisure-time physical activity.Gender, income level, smoking-status and years of education are significant in explaining the weekly duration conditional on participation, whereas smoking-status and years of education are significant in determining the unconditional level of leisure-time physical activity.
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author Cheah, Yong Kang
Tan, Andrew K. G.
author_facet Cheah, Yong Kang
Tan, Andrew K. G.
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title Determinants of leisure-time physical activity: Evidence from Malaysia
title_short Determinants of leisure-time physical activity: Evidence from Malaysia
title_full Determinants of leisure-time physical activity: Evidence from Malaysia
title_fullStr Determinants of leisure-time physical activity: Evidence from Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of leisure-time physical activity: Evidence from Malaysia
title_sort determinants of leisure-time physical activity: evidence from malaysia
publisher World Scientific Publishing Co.
publishDate 2014
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/12397/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0217590814500179
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