Additional file 1: of Attaching metabolic expenditures to standard occupational classification systems: perspectives from time-use research

This file contains – in its separate tabs – the different steps of the calculation procedure we outlined in paragraph ‘4.1 An alternative approach to applying MET values to occupational codes’. The first tab ‘ISCO - METs calculation’ provides a list of all 436 four-digit ISCO-08 codes and their underlying job-specific tasks. We assigned MET values to these underlying job-specific tasks using our ‘task abbreviations/task component calculations’ list, which we present in the second tab ‘Job-specific tasks’. The METs assigned to this list were based on the most recent version of the Ainsworth compendium [23], which we outlined in the third tab ‘Compendium - Ainsworth (2011)’. The fourth and final tab ‘ISCO - METs table’ presents an overview of all four-digit ISCO-08 codes and their assigned MET values. (XLSX 522 kb)