Table 1.

Energy balance-related behavior and descriptives (N = 2074)

Behavior	Content	mean	sd
Activity-related behavior (minutes/week)
Active means of transport	Walking or cycling to school	45.9	54.6
School sports	Sports at school, including physical education and swimming lessons as part of the curriculum	83.7	62.3
Sports at a club	Sports at a sports club (e.g. swimming, soccer, ballet)	43.4	53.1
Playing outside	Playing outside, excluding school recess	622.9	367.5
Watching television	Television watching, including videos and DVDs	357.8	248.2
Computer use	Using the computer, including using the internet and playing games on a regular or games computer	53.4	103.0
Eating routines
Meal frequency (per week)	Total number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners consumed per week	20.8	0.7
Take-out meal frequency (per week)	Total number of meals consumed from a take-out or at a restaurant per week	0.5	0.5
Snack frequency (per week)	Total number of snacks consumed per week	22.4	10.2
Duration of meals (minutes)	Average number of minutes a meal takes	30.6	7.7
Eating together (%)	Percentage of meals consumed together with at least one other family member	90.6	11.1
Eating at the table (%)	Percentage of meals consumed at the dinner table	89.8	15.4
Eating with television on (%)	Percentage of meals consumed while television was on	11.1	17.7