Family joint activities in a cross-national perspective

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Means and standard deviations of responses^a to questions on family time spent together in shared activities and corresponding factor score values

Shared activity	Mean^b	Standard Deviation	Factor Score Values^c
Watching TV or a video together	2.78	1.116	0.147
Playing indoor games together	1.12	1.011	0.203
Eating a meal together	3.15	1.053	0.154
Going for a walk together	1.23	1.007	0.237
Going places together	1.53	0.978	0.229
Visiting friends or relatives together	1.67	0.916	0.205
Playing sports together	0.78	0.978	0.191
Sitting and talking about things together	2.12	1.260	0.193

^a Response codes are: every day = 4, most days = 3, about once a week = 2, less often = 1, never = 0.
^b For each variable, missing values are replaced with the variable mean.
^c Extraction method: principal component analysis. Percentage variance explained by factor 41.16; Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy 0,845; Bartlett's test of sphericity: approx chi-square 30,509; df 28; sig. 0.000.

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