Re: [H+T--Friends] Transportation workers have highest obesity (Sara Zimmerman)

There have also been many studies that have shown that bus operators have a very high incidence of heart disease and report high levels of stress. Their jobs are sedentary, but they have higher exposures to mobile pollution, stress from traffic, responsibility for safe driving and sometimes dealing with difficult passenger situations. Studies conducted over 20 years ago also reported high levels of smoking. A lot of this research was done at UC San Francisco. Ellin Reisner On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Phyllis ORRICK &lt;phylliso(a)berkeley.edu <mailto:phylliso@berkeley.edu>> wrote: Interesting question, Sara. This is a SURVEY, not a study, fyi. Here's a link to their methodology page. While it doesn't say it weights by SES, they claim to have a representative sample. I'll leave the parsing to better minds than mine. Looking forward to the discussion. Phyllis http://www.well-beingindex.com/methodology.asp The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index tracks the well-being of U.S. residents throughout the year, interviewing no fewer than 500 U.S. adults nationwide each day, with the exception of major holidays. Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each daily sample includes a minimum quota of 150 cell phone respondents and 850 landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents for gender within region. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday. Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, cell-phone-only status, cell-phone-mostly status, and phone lines. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2009 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design. With the inclusion of the cell-phone-only households and the Spanish Language interviews, 98% of the adult population is represented in the sample. By comparison, typical landline-only methodologies represent approximately 85% of the adult population. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls. Click here <http://well-beingindex.com/files/Gallup-Healthways%20Index%20Methodology%20Report%20FINAL%203-25-08.pdf> to download the formal methodology and Well-Being Index research report. -- Phyllis Orrick Communications Director Safe Transportation Research and Education Center <http://www.safetrec.berkeley.edu/> (SafeTREC) University of California Transportation Center <http://www.uctc.net/> (UCTC) Institute for Urban and Regional Development <http://www.iurd.berkeley.edu/> (IURD) California Active Transportation Safety Information Pages <http://catsip.berkeley.edu/> (CATSIP) 2614 Dwight Way UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720-7374 510-643-1779 <tel:510-643-1779> @transsafe <https://twitter.com/#%21/transsafe> @californiaUTC <https://twitter.com/#%21/CaliforniaUTC> @IURDBerkeley <https://twitter.com/#%21/IURDBerkeley> @trbhealth <https://twitter.com/#%21/trbhealth> Skype: pmorrick _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net <mailto:H%2BT--Friends@ryoko.chrispy.net> http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends -- Ellin Reisner, Ph.D. reisnere51(a)gmail.com <mailto:reisnere51@gmail.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends