Aggregate Variables

These data are automatically written to a csv file upon completion of the survey

• PAQa1_average
• PAQa2to7_average
• PAQa8_average
• PAQa_scaleScore
• PAQa_9
• PAQa_9_freeAnswer

Scoring

1. Item 1 (Spare time activity)
   Take the mean of all activities (“no” activity being a 1, “7 times or more” being a 5) on the activity checklist to form a composite score for item 1.
    
2. Item 2 to 7 (PE, lunch, right after school, evening, weekends, describes you best)
   The answers for each item start from the lowest activity response and progress to the highest activity response - Simply use the reported value that is checked off for each item (the lowest activity response being a 1 and the highest activity response being a 5).
    
3. Item 8
   Take the mean of all days of the week (“none” being a 1, “very often” being a 5) to form a composite score for item 8.
    
4. Item 9 
   Can be used to identify students who had unusual activity during the previous week, but this question is NOT used as part of the summary activity score.
    
5. How to calculate the final PAQ-A activity summary score
   Once you have a value from 1 to 5 for each of the 8 items (items 1 to 8) used in the physical activity composite score, you simply take the mean of these 8 items, which results in the final PAQ-A activity summary score.

Resources

• Original publication
• Peer-reviewed publication