Table 3.

Mean Responses of Children and Parents Over 5 Days and Comparison of Children’s Responses With Parents’ Responses (N = 28 Pairs)

	Child survey		Parent survey		Agreement between child and parental reports
Survey item	Mean n (rangea)	Mean %b	Mean n (rangea)	Mean %b	Mean kappa coefficient (95% CI)	Mean percent agreement
(2)c How did you get to school today?					.80 (.71–.89)	88.4
bus	10 (8–12)	36.2	10 (9–12)	37.7
car or truck	15 (13–17)	55.8	17 (15–19)	61.6
walked	0 (0–0)	0.0	0 (0–0)	0.0
biked	0 (0–0)	0.0	0 (0–0)	0.0
skateboard, scooter, or   Rollerblade	0 (0–0)	0.0	0 (0–0)	0.0
other	2 (2–3)	8.0	0 (0–1)	0.7
(3) Whom did you travel with? (Mark all that apply.)
no one, I was by myself	0 (0–0)	0.0	0 (0–0)	0.0	1.00	100.0
mother or father	16 (14–17)	58.7	16 (13–19)	59.3	.82 (.73–.92)	89.0
brother or sister	14 (12–15)	49.2	7 (5–11)	25.3	.46 (.33–.58)	73.2
other relative	0 (0–0)	0.0	0 (0–0)	0.0	1.00	100.0
other student(s)	11 (10–13)	41.3	9 (8–11)	34.1	.75 (.63–.86)	87.0
other	2 (2–3)	8.0	1 (1–1)	3.7	—d	91.3
(4) Where will you go directly after school today?					.64 (.34–.98)	86.7
home	20 (19–22)	73.7	21 (20–23)	79.0
after-school program at school	2 (0–3)	4.5	2 (0–1)	2.2
relative’s house	0 (0–1)	0.7	0 (0–1)	0.0
friend’s house	0 (0–1)	0.7	1 (1–1)	0.7
YMCA/YWCA or boys and   girls club	5 (4–5)	17.5	3 (3–4)	11.8
sports practice or lessons	0 (0–1)	0.7	0 (0–1)	0.7
other	1 (0–2)	2.2	2 (0–3)	5.9
(5) How will you get there? (if previous answer was not home)					.61 (.28–.94)	87.0
bus	3 (2–4)	28.4	1 (1–2)	22.4
car or truck	2 (1–2)	17.5	2 (1–3)	35.2
walk	5 (4–5)	54.1	2 (2–3)	42.4
bike	0	0.0	0	0.0
skateboard, scooter, or   Rollerblade	0	0.0	0	0.0
other	0	0.0	0	0.0
(6) Whom will you travel with? (Mark all that apply.)
no one, I will be by myself	2 (1–2)	6.5	1 (1–2)	4.8	—	90.6
mother or father	6 (4–8)	21.7	8 (5 –11)	28.2	.57 (.42–.72)	83.3
brother or sister	11 (10–12)	39.8	4 (2–7)	16.0	.13 (0–.26)	63.0
other relative	0 (0–1)	0.0	0 (0–0)	0.0	1.00	100.0
other student(s)	20 (19–21)	73.2	17 (14–19)	60.1	.64 (.51–.77)	81.9
other	4 (3–4)	13.0	1 (1–1)	3.6	—	86.2
(7) When you go home, how will you get there?					.81 (.70–.90)	88.9
bus	16 (15–18)	59.6	16 (15–18)	59.3
car or truck	10 (8–11)	36.0	11 (8–12)	39.3
walk	1 (1–2)	4.4	1 (1–1)	3.6
bike	0	0.0	0	0.0
skateboard, scooter, or   Rollerblade	0	0.0	0	0.0
other	0	0.0	0	0.0
missing	1		0

^aRanges are based on the 5-day period.

^bPercents do not add up to 100% because they are averaged over the 5 days.

^cThe survey item numbers correspond to the survey questions in the Appendix.

^d— indicates cells too small to calculate kappa.