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. 2015 Dec 8;5(Suppl 2):S9–S16. doi: 10.1038/ijosup.2015.13

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Daily physical activity (steps per day) from ISCOLE study sites and their representative countries. Dark gray bars indicate data from ISCOLE participants; white bars represent country-level data. If no white bar, then country-level data were not available. Where available, data are presented for both boys and girls. Horizontal black line represents mean steps per day for all ISCOLE participants; horizontal dashed line represents target of 12 000 steps per day recommended to meet the current physical activity guidelines.47 Data were included if it was collected via pedometer or accelerometer and presented as sample mean. Country-level data sets included: Finland: Physical Activity of School-Aged Children;14 UK: Millennium Cohort Study;16 Canada: Canadian Health Measures Survey;28 the United States: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey;48 Australia: Australian National Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey.35 The Millennium Cohort Study also provided data for England: 10 147 steps per day compared with 9982 steps per day in ISCOLE. See Additional file 4 for additional study details on country-level data.