A study of the physical exercising behaviors of urban residents in China based on a hierarchical linear model
By using some data derived from CGSS2006 urban questionnaires, and by adopting a hierarchical linear model, the authors studied the individual physical exercising behaviors of residents in urban communities in China, the drew the following conclusions: the weekly working times, educated years, individual annual incomes of individuals as independent variables in the individual hierarchy, and the monthly incomes of families as independent variables in the higher hierarchy, jointly affected the occurrence of individual physical exercising behaviors; in addition, exclusive of the influence of independent variables in the individual hierarchy, the monthly expenses of families in the family hierarchy had decisive influence on the occurrence of individual physical exercising behaviors.