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Table 2 Sex-based percentages around equipment or play areas (mean (SD))

From: Behavioral mapping of children’s physical activities and social behaviors in an indoor preschool facility: methodological challenges in revealing the influence of space in play

Equipment or play area

Sex

% Girls

% Boys

Ball experiment

29.35 (41.35)

75.54 (38.88)

Ball lift

43.75 (29.95)

63.54 (32.20)

Grocery store shelf

77.57 (12.83)

35.36 (33.68)

Grocery till

53.55 (32.70)

55.37 (36.52)

Horses

58.02 (35.70)

34.99 (36.24)

Magnet board

28.60 (42.02)

76.16 (39.35)

Puppet box

36.92 (34.85)

52.56 (40.43)

Scattered blocks

8.35 (5.78)

93.74 (6.30)

Wind tube experiment

45.85 (26.14)

61.79 (29.95)

Wood tree house

50.21 (29.79)

58.16 (33.62)

Xylophone

0 (0)

80 (44.72)

Scattered blocks II

32.10 (0)

67.90 (0)

Skipping pods

27.70 (31.53)

72.30 (31.53)