Table 3.
Prevalence of meeting physical fitness standards (“excellent”, “good”, “pass”, or “no pass”) overall and separated by sex and residence locale across school grades, from the 2016 Physical Activity and Fitness in China—The Youth Study (%).
| Primary | Junior middle | Junior high | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Totala | |||
| Excellent | 7.89 | 3.65 | 2.00 |
| Good | 28.46 | 22.85 | 20.01 |
| Pass | 56.87 | 62.05 | 68.67 |
| No pass | 6.78 | 11.45 | 9.32 |
| Boy | |||
| Excellent | 8.26 | 3.69 | 2.13 |
| Good | 25.92 | 17.80 | 17.10 |
| Pass | 57.71 | 62.76 | 70.64 |
| No pass | 8.11 | 15.75 | 10.13 |
| Girl | |||
| Excellent | 7.51 | 3.60 | 1.87 |
| Good | 31.00 | 27.89 | 22.85 |
| Pass | 56.04 | 61.36 | 66.75 |
| No pass | 5.45 | 7.15 | 8.53 |
| Residence localeb | |||
| Urban | |||
| Excellent | 8.05 | 3.94 | 1.99 |
| Good | 28.77 | 22.74 | 19.74 |
| Pass | 57.33 | 59.81 | 68.11 |
| No pass | 5.85 | 13.51 | 10.16 |
| Urban boy | |||
| Excellent | 9.07 | 3.76 | 1.93 |
| Good | 26.55 | 16.59 | 15.14 |
| Pass | 57.31 | 60.78 | 71.06 |
| No pass | 7.07 | 18.87 | 11.87 |
| Urban girl | |||
| Excellent | 7.06 | 4.12 | 2.06 |
| Good | 30.91 | 28.73 | 24.35 |
| Pass | 57.35 | 58.86 | 65.15 |
| No pass | 4.68 | 8.29 | 8.44 |
| Rural | |||
| Excellent | 5.15 | 3.32 | 2.13 |
| Good | 27.77 | 23.79 | 20.79 |
| Pass | 61.68 | 63.54 | 68.90 |
| No pass | 5.40 | 9.35 | 8.18 |
| Rural boy | |||
| Excellent | 6.39 | 3.42 | 2.41 |
| Good | 28.83 | 18.98 | 19.15 |
| Pass | 59.39 | 65.36 | 70.24 |
| No pass | 5.39 | 12.24 | 8.20 |
| Rural girl | |||
| Excellent | 3.91 | 3.21 | 1.88 |
| Good | 26.72 | 28.38 | 22.28 |
| Pass | 63.97 | 61.81 | 67.68 |
| No pass | 5.40 | 6.60 | 8.16 |
a
Based on an analytic sample size of 171,991 children (boys = 85,965; girls = 86,026).
b
Based on a sample size of 107,088, with 52,435 children (boys = 25,984; girls = 26,451) living in urban areas and 54,653 children (boys = 26,869; girls = 27,784) living in rural areas.