Prediction of Optimal Daily Step Count Achievement from Segmented School Physical Activity

Table 1

Descriptive statistics for the total sample and within sex and grade groups (means and standard deviations).

	Total sample	Girls	Boys	Grade 4	Grade 5
	( = 1,714)	( = 926)	( = 788)	( = 816)	( = 898)
BMI (kg/m^2)	19.6 (4.2)	19.1 (4.1)	19.6 (4.3)	19.1 (4.3)	19.6 (4.0)
PE steps	1,897 (808)	1,823 (781)	(831)	1,890 (771)	1,953 (873)
Lunch recess steps	1,537 (523)	1,374 (456)	(536)	1,512 (484)	(534)
Afternoon recess steps	1,281 (541)	1,184 (504)	(561)	1,313 (499)	1,266 (560)
Classroom steps	2,052 (1,566)	1,850 (1,390)	2,261 (1,707)	1,931 (1,540)	2,037 (1,560)
School steps	5,625 (1,855)	5,242 (1,712)	(1,915)	5,139 (1,687)	(1,865)
Total day steps	13,048 (4,248)	10,218 (3,195)	(3,895)	12,403 (4,306)	(4,071)

Note. BMI stands for Body Mass Index; PE stands for physical education; bold denotes statistical significance between sexes or between grade levels, .