Are associations between home environment and preschool children’s sedentary time influenced by parental educational level in a cross-sectional survey?

Table 2 Characteristics of the study population

	N	Percentage	Mean (SD)
Children’s gender	863
Girls	413	48%
Boys	450	52%
Children’s age, years	864		4.7 (0.9)
Children’s sedentary time, minutes/hour	743		29.3 (4.5)
Parental educational level	792
Low (high school, vocational school or less)	232	29%
Medium (bachelor’s degree or equivalent)	327	41%
High (master’s degree or higher)	233	29%
The child lives with^a	804
Both parents	722	90%
Only with mother	46	6%
With mother and her new partner	15	2%
Half time with mother and half time with father	19	2%
Only with father	1	0.1%
Respondent of the parental questionnaire^b	802
Mother	707	88%
Father	95	12%

SD Standard deviation
^aOne child living with other guardians not shown
^bFour respondents, who were other guardians, were excluded from the analyses and are not shown

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