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Table 1 Participant Characteristics

From: Physical activity and sedentary behavior across three time-points and associations with social skills in early childhood

Demographic variables

Time 1 (2014/2015) (n = 251)

Time 2 (2015/2016) (n = 79)

Time 3 (2016/2017) (n = 77)

Children’s characteristics

 Age (years)

1.6 (0.2)

2.7 (0.3)

3.7 (0.4)

 Sex

  Male

50.6

–

–

  Female

49.4

–

–

Parental characteristics

 Age (years)

33.4 (5.0)

–

–

 Sex

  Male

13.9

14.1

7.8

  Female

86.1

85.9

92.2

Highest level of education (n = 250)

 High school (grades 9–12)

14.4

–

–

 Community/Technical college

27.2

–

–

 University

38.0

–

–

 Post-graduate

20.4

–

–

  1. Values represent mean (standard deviation) for continuous values, and percentage for categorical values
  2. A missing value means this question was not asked at the respective time point