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Table 2 Characteristics of participating children

From: International inter-school competition to encourage children to walk to school: a mixed methods feasibility study

School

Age: mean (SD)

Gender: n (%) female

Ethnicity: n (%)

*Usual mode of travel to school: n (%)

  

White

Asian

Black

Other

Walk

Cycle

Train/bus

Car/private

L 1

11.5 (0.6)

88 (58%)

123 (82%)

8 (5%)

11 (7%)

9 (6%)

93 (62%)

4 (3%)

53 (35%)

15 (10%)

L 2

11.6 (0.6)

0 (0%)

15 (11%)

101 (76%)

9 (6%)

10 (7%)

108 (80%)

4 (3%)

27 (2%)

9 (7%)

L 3

11.5 (0.6)

32 (37%)

66 (76%)

2 (2%)

8 (9%)

11 (13%)

32 (37%)

4 (5%)

43 (49%)

24 (28%)

L 4

11.5 (0.5)

100 (42%)

12 (5%)

11 (5%)

5 (2%)

209 (88%)

231 (97%)

0

7 (3%)

0

L 5

12.0 (0.2)

80 (53%)

11 (7%)

16 (11%)

8 (5%)

115 (77%)

136 (91%)

1 (0.7%)

7 (5%)

4 (3%)

L 6

11.6 (0.6)

215 (100%)

170 (79%)

10 (5%)

17 (8%)

18 (8%)

149 (69%)

2 (0.9%)

63 (29%)

41 (19%)

L 7

11.6 (0.5)

84 (49%)

127 (74%)

5 (3%)

23 (14%)

15 (9%)

76 (45%)

0

110 (65%)

24 (14%)

Summary

Mean 11.6 (SD 0.2)

Total 599

Total 524

Total 153

Total 81

Total 387

Total 825

Total 15

Total 310

Total 117

R 1

11.5 (0.5)

155 (55%)

234 (83%)

16 (6%)

6 (2%)

24 (9%)

255 (91%)

10 (4%)

4 (1%)

27 (10%)

R 2

11.3 (0.5)

67 (51%)

45 (34%)

8 (6%)

12 (8%)

66 (50%)

107 (82%)

10 (6%)

10 (6%)

19 (14%)

R 3

11.7 (0.6)

155 (100%)

59 (38%)

47 (31%)

33 (21%)

16 (10%)

101 (65%)

1 (0.6%)

46 (30%)

36 (23%)

Summary

Mean 11.5 (SD 0.2)

Total 377

Total 338

Total 71

Total 51

Total 106

Total 463

Total 21

Total 60

Total 82

V 1

10.2 (0.6)

120 (75%)

Missing data

163 (63%)

38 (15%)

17 (7%)

82 (32%)

V 2

11.5 (1.8)

49 (50%)

Missing data

64 (65%)

21 (21%)

3 (3%)

29 (30%)

Summary

Mean 10.8 (SD 0.9)

Total 169

-

-

-

-

Total 227

Total 59

Total 20

Total 111

Overall 2068

11.5 (SD 0.7)

1145 (55%)

862 (50%)

224 (13%)

132 (8%)

493 (29%)

1515 (73%)

95 (5%)

390 (19%)

310 (15%)

  1. *Could chose more than one mode of travel; hence figures add up to more than 100%.