Creator:

Statistics Canada

Geography:

North America > Canada > Nova Scotia

Categories:

• Physical Activity

Tags:

• body weight
• child obesity
• children
• data collection
• overweight
• physical activity
• screen time
• sports
• television

Date:

2008

URL:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2008003/article/10662-eng.pdf

Annotation:

This article compares child reports of their physical and sedentary activities with those of their parents.  Data were obtained from the 2003 Children's Lifestyle and School-performance Study (CLASS), a survey of Grade 5 students and their parents in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. Survey data with responses from Grade 5 students and their parents about the students' physical and sedentary activities were used. Agreement between the parent and child reports was evaluated with weighted kappa.  Multilevel logistic regression was used to compare the parent and child reports in relation to the child body weight.