Table 2.

Percentage of Children 6–12 Participating in Selected Activities and Weekly Time, 1997 and 2003, by Gender

	1997			2003			1997 vs. 2003			1997	2003
Activities	All	Boys	Girls	All	Boys	Girls	All	Boys	Girls	boys vs. girls	boys vs girls
N	1323	671	652	1239	637	602
Percent Participating
Television, total	94.8%	95.5%	94.2%	96.6%	97.5%	95.8%	*
Computer, total	18.2%	18.0%	18.4%	29.2%	28.6%	29.8%	***
Computer play	14.1%	14.6%	13.7%	21.0%	22.4%	19.6%	***
Computer study	2.0%	1.5%	2.5%	2.6%	2.2%	3.0%
Computer communications	4.7%	4.9%	4.5%	10.8%	8.7%	12.8%	***		*		*
Video games	29.6%	40.7%	18.5%	36.1%	56.9%	16.5%	**	***	***	***	***
Nonscreen play	83.4%	81.9%	84.9%	73.9%	76.0%	71.8%	***
Sleeping	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Reading	38.3%	35.3%	41.5%	47.2%	45.1%	49.1%	***	*		*
Nonscreen study	58.2%	61.5%	54.9%	65.6%	65.9%	65.3%	***	*		*
Sports	76.2%	79.2%	73.1%	60.4%	63.4%	57.5%	***	**	*	**	*
Outdoors	16.2%	16.9%	15.6%	10.0%	7.9%	12.0%	***		*		*
School	90.8%	91.6%	89.9%	90.6%	90.9%	90.2%	***
Weekly Hours of Everyone in Activities (Users and Nonusers)
Television, total	13.09	13.19	12.99	13.96	14.14	13.80	*
Computer, total	0.82	1.02	0.61	1.33	1.37	1.29	***	**		**
Computer play	0.58	0.73	0.42	0.81	0.92	0.72	**	**		**
Computer study	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.09	0.06	0.11
Computer communications	0.14	0.20	0.09	0.43	0.39	0.46	***	*		*
Video games	1.52	2.29	0.75	2.29	3.86	0.82	***	***	***	***	***
Nonscreen play	7.85	7.47	8.24	6.33	6.38	6.27	***
Sleeping	69.03	68.86	69.20	70.74	70.51	70.96	***
Reading	1.19	1.09	1.28	1.56	1.43	1.68	***
Nonscreen study	2.91	3.15	2.66	3.57	3.57	3.56	***	*		*
Sports	5.84	7.07	4.60	3.95	4.67	3.28	***	***	***	***	***
Outdoors	0.63	0.55	0.72	0.44	0.28	0.59	***		**		**
School	32.89	33.39	32.38	33.07	33.08	33.07

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t-tests across years for all and by gender, then by gender within year

Note: All data are weighted