Minimal dataset for:Impact of COVID-19 on Walking Practices: Policy Insights for Promoting Urban Health and Physical Activity Resilience

This dataset contains anonymized individual- and community-level data used to analyze changes in walking practice among adults (≥19 years) living in Busan, South Korea, before (2018–2019) and after (2020–2021) the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual-level variables were derived from the Korea Community Health Survey (CHS) and include socio-demographic characteristics, health behaviors, health status, and subjective perceptions of the neighborhood environment. Community-level variables were constructed by linking administrative and open-government data on urban parks, pedestrian paths, public and private sports facilities, and social network difficulty at the district level. The binary outcome variable indicates whether respondents met the CHS definition of “walking practice” (≥30 minutes of walking per day on ≥5 days in the past week). All direct personal identifiers have been removed, and districts are coded with anonymized identifiers.