Parental and Adolescent Physical Activity Survey Data from 15 Chinese Provinces

A 2023 survey across 15 provinces in China collected data from 11,940 participants to study the relationship between parental physical activity and adolescent physical activity. The dataset includes measures of family physical activity support and was used to test a mediation model. The data was contributed by Fusheng Liang and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Conducting mediation analysis to understand how family support influences adolescent physical activity.
• Performing subgroup analyses to explore heterogeneity in physical activity relationships across different demographic groups.
• Training predictive models for adolescent physical activity levels based on parental behavior and family support variables.
• Replicating or validating the study's findings on the mediating role of family support in health behavior transmission.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on a substantial survey sample of 11,940 participants.
• The study design includes statistical results such as beta coefficients (e.g., β = 0.0969) and mediation effect size (0.0310), suggesting structured analysis-ready data.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small (15.8 KB), suggesting it may only contain summary statistics or a single table rather than raw survey responses.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the 15 surveyed provinces in China.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Survey conducted across 15 provinces in China.

Time Range

2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 05:34:15; freshness should be verified.

Geography

15 provinces in China