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Table 1 Characteristics of participants by grade

From: Association between lifestyle, parental smoke, socioeconomic status, and academic performance in Japanese elementary school children: the Super Diet Education Project

  Junior (1–3) Senior (4–6)  
Total n = 1663 n = 826 (%) n = 837 (%) P value
Sex (boy) 50.1 49.6 0.83
Wakeup time on week day
 < 6:30 a.m. 52.8 48.6 0.07
 6:30 to < 7:00 44.2 46.6  
 ≥ 7:00 3.0 4.8  
Skipping breakfast (yes) 4.5 8.7 < 0.001
Screen time on week day (≥ 2 h) 34.5 43.2 < 0.001
Physical activity
 Very often 28.3 28.7 < 0.001
 Often 48.8 39.7  
 Rarely 22.9 31.7  
Bedtime on week day
 < 10 p.m. 88.6 53.7 < 0.001
 10 to < 10:30 9.2 31.2  
 10:30 or later 2.2 15.2  
Daytime sleepiness (yes) 12.8 20.9 < 0.001
Obesity (yes) 8.2 7.8 0.73
Cram school (yes) 23.0 27.0 0.06
Study duration at home (< 1 h) 74.8 50.3 < 0.001
Paternal smoke (yes) 42.1 46.2 0.09
Maternal smoke (yes) 10.2 11.7 0.32
Subjective SES
 High 28.3 26.9 0.73
 Middle 47.8 47.9  
 Low 23.8 25.2  
Subjective academic performance    0.20
 Well or relatively well 82.4 81.6  
 Neither 11.9 14.1  
 Relatively poor or poor 5.7 4.3  
  1. Pearson chi-square test
  2. SES, socioeconomic status