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. 2019 Jul 15;19:946. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7235-x

Table 2.

Children’s physical activity preference, knowledge, screen-time and outdoor play by demographic factors

Variable	Ethnicity				Child Gender				Age of Primary carer					Primary carer education
	Caucasian	other			Male	female			20–29 years	30–39 years	40⁺ years			High School	Technical or trade certificate	Tertiary
	Mean (SD) n = 109	Mean (SD) n = 20	t	p	Mean (SD) n = 62	Mean (SD) n = 60	t	p	Mean (SD) n = 17	Mean (SD) n = 90	Mean (SD) n = 22	F	p	Mean (SD) n = 27	Mean (SD) n = 16	Mean (SD) n = 80	F	p
Weekend outdoor play^a	7.65 (4.1)	5.46 (7.5)	1.73	0.08	7.60 (4.6)	7.20 (4.7)	.379	0.71	7.46 (3.66)	7.51 (5.05)	6.95 (3.2)	.130	.878	5.50 (4.28)	6.84 (2.97)	8.15 (4.87)	3.57	0.03^***
weekday outdoor play^a	12.68 (8.0)	6.00 (6.1)	3.08	0.00^***	12.1 (4.7)	12.02 (8.5)	0.31	0.97	12.9 (8.26)	11.58 (8.13)	12.6 (8.4)	.291	.748	8.64 (6.69)	10.1 (5.07)	13.52 (8.78)	4.28	0.01^**
Weekend screen-time^a	6.22 (4.5)	8.03 (10.5)	−0.66	0.23	4.74 (3.2)	3.71 (2.4)	2.00	0.04^*	3.53 (1.97)	3.71 (2.47)	4.21 (2.8)	1.11	.331	4.90 (3.98)	4.43 (2.30)	4.22 (2.84)	1.20	0.30
Weekday screen-time^a	4.10 (2.6)	5.26 (3.8)	−1.13	0.13	6.3 (4.9)	5.91 (3.8)	0.443	.658	6.59 (5.38)	6.14 (4.36)	5.21 (3.7)	0.51	.597	6.64 (5.50)	6.46 (4.17)	5.85 (4.09)	0.368	0.69
Child PA preference (Pre-FPQ)	3.92 (1.6)	3.00 (1.3)	.132	0.03^*	4.12 (1.6)	3.35 (1.5)	2.59	0.01^**	4.57 (1.28)	3.81 (1.64)	3.40 (1.6)	2.24	.110	4.11 (1.69)	3.80 (1.82)	3.74 (1.58)	0.500	0.60
Child PA knowledge (Pre-FPQ)	5.42 (2.0)	4.9 (1.9)	.828	0.40	5.18 2.0)	5.53 (2.0)	−.907	.367	5.00 (2.07)	5.47 (2.03)	5.27 (2.1)	.357	.70	5.29 (1.93)	5.46 (2.53)	5.37 (2.03)	0.034	0.96
Child PA preference (Parent questionnaire)	19.64 (3.06)	19.26 (2.78)	.499	.645	19.7 (3.20)	19.53 (2.91)	0.318	0.75	21.6 (2.52)	19.54 (2.95)	18.5 (3.0)	4.93	0.01^**	20.4 (2.63)	19.1 (2.87)	19.4 (3.17)	1.419	0.24

^aparent reported

^*p < 0.05 ^** p < 0.01 ^*** p < 0.001