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Table 3 Spearman’s correlations between the PA of the mothers and fathers stratified for sons and daughters

From: Parental physical activity is associated with objectively measured physical activity in young children in a sex-specific manner: the GECKO Drenthe cohort

	Sons		Daughters
	Sedentary	MVPA	Sedentary	MVPA
Physical activity (PA) Mother
Total PA	−0.062	0.000	0.040	0.078
Light PA	−0.027	−0.038	0.076	0.035
Moderate PA	−0.055	0.034	−0.085	0.057
Vigorous PA	0.026	0.007	−0.051	0.159*
Moderate-to-vigorous PA	−0.070	0.047	−0.080	0.078
Sports	−0.072	−0.003	− 0.091	0.133*
Leisure time PA	−0.080	0.059	−0.084	0.127*
Active commuting	0.037	−0.054	0.146*	−0.016
Physical activity (PA) Father
Total PA	0.041	−0.092	−0.014	0.075
Light PA	0.122*	−0.228**	−0.019	0.072
Moderate PA	−0.079	0.147*	0.038	−0.067
Vigorous PA	0.049	−0.027	−0.083	0.141*
Moderate-to-vigorous PA	−0.061	0.132*	0.002	−0.003
Sports	0.069	−0.046	−0.073	0.103
Leisure time PA	−0.036	−0.002	− 0.053	0.021
Active commuting	0.087	−0.080	0.045	−0.026

All participants were recruited from the GECKO Drenthe birth cohort (babies born between 1 April 2006 and 1 April 2007 in Drenthe, the Netherlands) and measured for PA between 2009 and 2012 when aged 4–7 years
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, values indicate Spearman’s rho

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