From: The closer the sportier? Children’s sports activity and their distance to sports facilities
Total | Distance to gym ≤2.5 km | Distance to gym >2.5 km | |||||
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Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
Children’s characteristics | |||||||
Age (in years) | 6.57 | 2.27 | 6.58 | 2.27 | 6.52 | 2.31 | |
Gender (1 = male, 0 = female) | 0.51 | 0.51 | 0.50 | ||||
German background | 0.87 | 0.85 | 0.97 | ||||
Parents’ characteristics | |||||||
Single parent household | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.07 | ||||
Mother’s education | Basic | 0.20 | 0.21 | 0.16 | |||
Intermediate | 0.45 | 0.42 | 0.57 | ||||
High school | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.12 | ||||
University | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.13 | ||||
Other | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.02 | ||||
Father’s education | Basic | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.24 | |||
Intermediate | 0.34 | 0.31 | 0.47 | ||||
High school | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.07 | ||||
University | 0.22 | 0.23 | 0.15 | ||||
Other | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.02 | ||||
Mother’s BMI | Underweight | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | |||
Normal | 0.63 | 0.63 | 0.62 | ||||
Overweight | 0.22 | 0.22 | 0.24 | ||||
Obese | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | ||||
Social class | Low | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.27 | |||
Medium | 0.46 | 0.45 | 0.52 | ||||
High | 0.26 | 0.28 | 0.20 | ||||
Smoking during pregnancy | Regularly | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.03 | |||
Occasionally | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.09 | ||||
Never | 0.82 | 0.81 | 0.86 | ||||
Neighborhood characteristics | |||||||
East Germany | 0.33 | 0.28 | 0.59 | ||||
Municipality size | Village | 0.36 | 0.28 | 0.79 | |||
Small town | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.04 | ||||
Medium town | 0.31 | 0.34 | 0.14 | ||||
City | 0.21 | 0.24 | 0.03 | ||||
Population density (inhabitants/km2) | 733.19 | 887.10 | 838.24 | 918.80 | 184.75 | 360.40 | |
Recreation area/capita (m2) | 39.99 | 37.44 | 36.50 | 30.51 | 58.23 | 58.86 | |
Tax income/capita (Euro) | 551.80 | 251.63 | 579.59 | 252.10 | 406.76 | 192.49 | |
Share of population <18 years | 16.92 | 3.14 | 17.12 | 3.12 | 15.89 | 3.06 |