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Table 1 Health survey questions

From: Examining the relationships between individual’s time use and activity participations with their health indicators

Category

Description

Physical activities

1. Body weight and height

2. Vigorous activities as part of the individual’s work/school activities and around the home environment

3. Moderate activities as part of the individual’s work/school activities and around the home environment

4. Walking as part of the individual’s work/school activities (excluding travel activities)

5. Travel activities using a motorised mode/s

6. Non-motorised transport activities (cycling and walking)

7. Activities performed sitting down

Physical activities in leisure time as part of health promoting activities

1. Objective and subjective measurement of walking

2. Objective and subjective measurement of vigorous active exercise with and without bodily collision, such as soccer, basketball, running, playing tennis/badminton, fast cycling, aerobics, swimming, etc.

3. Objective and subjective measurement of moderate active exercise with and without bodily collision, such as light cycling, light swimming, light tennis/badminton, etc.

Social and communication activities with family members and other people

1. Social and communication activities with other people, such as voluntary and organisational activities, attending events and socialising at events

2. Social and communication activities with other family members

Lifestyle and health habits

Eight types of habits: eating breakfast, enough sleep, eating balanced meals, smoking, drinking alcohol, working less than nine hours each day, under stress/pressure circumstances

Health-related quality of life

1. Subjective measurement of an individual’s health and comparison with the previous year

2. Physical functioning

3. Limitations on role functioning due to physical health

4. Bodily pain

5. General health

6. Mental health

7. Limitations on role functioning due to emotional problems

8. Social functioning

9. Vitality