Table 3.

Mean Differences of Macro Activity Patterns of Children Living in an Agricultural Community by Occupation

	Pre-Thinning Season (n=99)			Thinning Season (n=99)
	Farmworker (n=59)	Non Farmworker (n=40)		Farmworker (n=59)	Non Farmworker (n=40)
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	p-Valuea	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	p-Valuea
Number of Hours Spent Outside (past 7 days)	19.5 ± 13.1	17.5 ± 12.2	0.25	30.2 ± 20.8	24.2 ± 16.7	0.004
Number of Hours Spent Inside (past 7 days)	135.9 ± 16.9	133.8 ± 19.0	0.13	125.5 ± 23.1	113.6 ± 32.2	<0.001
Number of Hours Spent in Area Outside Home (per day)	2.0 ± 2.6	1.6 ± 1.7	0.13	3.5 ± 3.1	3.1 ± 2.6	0.19
Number of Hours Spent Inside Home (per day)	15.3 ± 3.7	15.3 ± 3.9	0.70	17.1 ± 4.3	16.6 ± 4.2	0.19
Number of Hours Spent in Area Outside School (per day)	0.8 ± 1.5	0.9 ± 1.9	0.72	0.81 ± 2.4	0.48 ± 1.4	0.25
Number of Hours Spent Inside School (per day)	4.1 ± 3.6	3.8 ± 3.4	0.28	0.85 ± 2.5	0.31 ± 1.0	0.005
Number of Hours Spent Doing Other Activities(per day)	1.8 ± 2.3	2.4 ± 3.5	0.07	1.8 ± 2.6	3.4 ± 3.9	<0.001
Number of days played in the field (past 7 days)	0.25 ± 1.0	0.15 ± 0.69	0.30	1.1 ± 3.1	0.71 ± 3.2	0.01

^ap-Value from the Wilcoxon Sum Rank Test