Skip to main content

Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of parents and adolescents

From: Associations of parents’ and adolescents’ active travel behavior across various destinations – a sex/gender analysis

Parents

Overall

Mothers

Fathers

N (%)

517 (100)

258 (49.9)

259 (50.1)

Age (M; SD)

47.67 (5.28)

46.21 (4.83)

49.14 (5.30)

Residential Area (N;%)

 City > 100,000 inhabitants

154 (29.2%)

76 (29.5%)

75 (29.9%)

 Medium sized town 20,000–100,000 inhabitants

90 (17.4%)

44 (17.1%)

46 (17.8%)

 Small town 5,000–20,000 inhabitants

115 (22.2%)

56 (21.7%)

59 (22.8%)

 Rural area/village

159 (30.8%)

80 (31.0%)

79 (30.5%)

Adolescents

Overall

Girls

Boys

N (%)

517 (100)

254 (49.1)

263 (50.9)

Age (M; SD)

13.07 (1.35)

12.92 (1.35)

13.21 (1.33)

Weight status (BMI) (M; SD)

19.23 (3.32)

19.12 (3.09)

19.33 (3.56)

School type (N;%)

 Elementary school

12 (2.3%)

8 (3.1%)

4 (1.5%)

 Middle school

24 (4.6%)

11 (4.3%)

13 (4.9%)

 Secondary school

99 (19.1%)

44 (17.3%)

55 (20.9%)

 High school

294 (56.9%)

154 (60.6%)

140 (53.2%)

 Comprehensive school

74 (14.3%)

31 (12.2%)

43 (16.3%)

 Internat

2 (0.4%)

2 (0.8%)

0

 Others

8 (1.5%)

3 (1.2%)

5 (1.9%)