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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Act Health. 2011 May;8(4):457–467. doi: 10.1123/jpah.8.4.457

Table 6.

Demographic differences among emergent latent classes based on multinomial logistic regression

Boys Girls
Variable Class 1
“Active”
Class 2
“Sedentary”
Class 3
“Low
Media/
Moderate
Activity”
Class 1
“Active”
Class 2
“Sedentary”
Class 3
“Low
Media/
Functional
Activity”
% % % % % %
6th–8th grade 65.3a 40.5b 34.5b 50.9 40.2 46.4
White race 86.0 82.0 88.5 86.4ab 79.4b 88.8a
Parent education,
≥ college degree
66.4 67.1 69.7 67.2 60.4 59.7
Live with two
parents/guardians
74.0 77.5 81.4 86.4a 61.4b 85.6a
Free or reduced-price
lunch
11.3 14.6 8.0 11.9 14.7 10.4
Overweight 22.7b 36.0a 26.6ab 15.3b 29.9a 20.0b
a,b

Classes with different letters are significantly different at p <0.05 based on multinomial logistic regression. Classes that share a letter are not significantly different.