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Table 1 Descriptive characteristics of four-year old children’s physical activity (N = 899)

From: Objectively measured physical activity patterns, sedentary time and parent-reported screen-time across the day in four-year-old Swedish children

Characteristics

All days Mean (SD)

Weekend day Mean (SD)

Weekday Mean (SD)

Questionnaire PA

 Play outdoors (minutes/day)

136.4 (70.6)

182.6 (85.4)

90.1 (73.1)

 Play indoors (minutes/day)

213.6 (84.3)

253.9 (88.7)

173.4 (103.7)

 Playing video games (minutes/day)

26.4 (36.9)

33.3 (44.3)

19.5 (32.5)

 Watching TV (minutes/day)

99.3 (45.4)

116.7 (52.4)

81.9 (46.4)

 Total screen time (minutes/day)

125.7 (61.3)

150 (72.7)

101.5 (59.7)

Accelerometer measured PA

 Wear time (hours/day)

12.2 (0.5)

12.0 (0.8)

12.3 (0.6)

 Total PA (cpm/day)

1485.5 (271.6)

1427.2 (340.7)

1507.5 (295.3)

 LPA (minutes/day)

361.2 (45.1)

341.2 (58.0)

368.7 (48.9)

 MVPA (minutes/day)

50.4 (20.9)

47.7 (25.7)

51.4 (22.6)

 VPA (minutes/day)

10.5 (7.9)

10.4 (10.7)

10.5 (8.9)

 ST (minutes/day)

321.4 (53.3)

330.8 (71.3)

317.8 (55.9)

 10 min ST bout (minutes/day)

286.1 (65.1)

298.5 (88.7)

281.3 (67.9)

 20 min ST bout (minutes/day)

165.2 (58.1)

176.5 (81.6)

160.8 (60.9)

 60 min ST bout (minutes/day)

51.0 (38.7)

63.5 (67.0)

46.2 (40.1)