Validity of a measure to assess healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices in Australian childcare services

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of study sample

Measure	Category	Count (Percentage)
Measure	Category	N = 42
Socio-economic disadvantage (SEIFA)	Low	9 (21.4%)
	Medium	29 (69.1%)
	High	4 (9.5%)
Service type^a	Preschool	17 (40.5%)
	Long day care service	26 (61.9%)
Number of allocated places^b	1-39	26 (61.9%)
	40-190	16 (38.1%)
Number of enrolments^b	1-80	24 (57.1%)
	81-200	18 (42.9%)
Number of educators^b	1-8	24 (58.5%)
	9-23	17 (41.5%)
Number of days open^b	5 Days	37 (88.1%)
	4 days or less	5 (11.9%)
Hours open^b	<10 hours	21 (50.0%)
	> = 10 hours	21 (50.0%)

^aPercentages do not add up to 100% as some services reported being a combination of different types.
^bMedian response is used as category cut-off point.

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