Table 3 Mean length of time (mins) per child (across the four study days) spent in bouts of MVPA and standard deviation, according to location relative to neighbourhood boundaries and land use type.
Gender | Home Location | Total (n = 100) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boys (n = 47) | Girls (n = 53) | Urban (n = 68) | Rural (n = 32) | ||
Neighbourhoods* | |||||
Inside neighbourhood | 34.9, SD 34.7 (60.4%) | 16.0, SD 22.3 (67.0%) | 25.7, SD 27.1 (65.0%) | 23.1, SD 35.4 (57.2%) | 24.9, SD 30.1 (62.5%) |
Outside neighbourhood | 22.9, SD 33.3 (39.6%) | 7.9, SD 13.0 (33.0%) | 13.8, SD 26.8 (35.0%) | 17.3, SD 22.8 (42.8%) | 14.9, SD 25.7 (37.5%) |
Land use** | |||||
Buildings | 4.1, SD 6.9 (7.0%) | 1.7, SD 8.1 (6.9%) | 3.4, SD 7.0 (8.6%) | 1.5, SD 2.9 (3.7%) | 2.8, SD 6.0 (7.0%) |
Other built land use | 6.5, SD 11.5 (11.3%) | 4.6, SD 10.3 (19.4%) | 6.5, SD 11.6 (16.4%) | 3.5, SD 8.1 (8.6%) | 5.5, SD 10.7 (13.9%) |
Roads and pavements | 10.4, SD 14.5 (18.0%) | 4.9, SD 8.2 (20.6%) | 7.9, SD 11.0 (20.0%) | 6.7, SD 12.9 (16.5%) | 7.5, SD 11.7 (18.9%) |
Gardens | 14.6, SD 21.0 (25.4%) | 5.1, SD 9.5 (21.4%) | 11.0, SD 15.5 (27.6%) | 6.6, SD 17.6 (16.4%) | 9.6, SD 16.5 (24.0%) |
Parks | 3.8, SD 11.2 (6.6%) | 2.1, SD 9.3 (8.8%) | 2.3, SD 8.9 (5.8%) | 4.2, SD 11.6 (10.4%) | 2.9, SD 10.0 (7.3%) |
Farmland | 9.3, SD 19.9 (16.0%) | 2.0, SD 6.8 (8.2%) | 3.8, SD 12.4 (9.6%) | 8.8, SD 18.1 (21.9%) | 5.4, SD 14.8 (13.6%) |
Grassland | 7.5, SD 17.4 (12.9%) | 2.3, SD 5.2 (9.5%) | 3.6, SD 5.7 (9.0%) | 7.1, SD 20.0 (17.7%) | 4.7, SD 12.7 (11.8%) |
Woodland | 1.5, SD 2.9 (2.6%) | 0.9, SD 2.9 (3.9%) | 1.1, SD 2.9 (2.8%) | 1.4, SD 2.6 (3.5%) | 1.2, SD 2.8 (3.0%) |
Beaches | 0.1, SD 0.8 (0.2%) | 0.3, SD 2.7 (1.3%) | 0.1, SD 0.6 (0.2%) | 0.5, SD 2.8 (1.3%) | 0.2, SD 1.7 (0.5%) |