I simply have to accompany my parents to sell, nothing else!: a multi-method exploration of barriers and facilitators of extracurricular physical activity among Mexican schoolchildren

Table 1 Characteristics of the study participants´ context

	Characteristics	Region
		South			Centre
		State	Municipality		State	Municipality	State	Municipality
Environmental		Campeche	Carmen	Campeche	Morelos	Cuernavaca	Mexico State	Toluca
	% urban population [23]	75%	88.0%	90.0%	82%	94.3%	87%	90.0%
	% poverty^a [24]	45.1%			41.1%		42.9%
	% of children engaged in inadequate household chores [25]	7.1%			6.5%		4.8%
	Crime rate per 100,000 inhabitants [26]	27,727			32,333		36,583
	Degree of marginalisation^b [27]	High	Very Low	Very Low	Medium	Very Low	Low	Very Low
	% children 6–11 years who do not attend to school [28]	4.9%	5.6%	2.3%	4.2%	3.6%	4.6%	4.3%
	Weather/environment [23]	Seafront Warm subhumid climate. Average annual temperature 26–7 °C.			Inland Warm subhumid weather. Average annual temperature 21.5 °C		Inland Subhumid climate. Average annual temperature is 14.7 °C
Leisure programs
	Parks for children	209	39	29	91	2	201	8
	Sports areas	317	38	34	239	6	1431	17
	Municipality/regional provision	Sports facilities, trained coaches and programs coordinated by the Institutional Sport Promotion Program [23].			Sports activities available for children at the local Sports Unit [24] Dancing options available at the Centro Morelense de las Artes [25] Free soccer classes coordinated by the Sports Institute [26]		Physical activity program coordinated by the Instituto Municipal de Cultura Física y Deporte de Toluca [27, 28]

Note. ^a= Having at least one social deprivation within six indicators (educational lag, access to health services, access to social security, quality and spaces of housing, basic services in housing, and access to food); this suggests family income is insufficient to acquire the goods and services required to meet both food and non-food needs
^b= The Marginalisation Index is a multidimensional measure of the deprivations intensity, assesing nine forms of exclusion across four dimensions: education, housing, population distribution and monetary income. It categorizes geostatistical units based on the socioeconomic deficiencies their populations face, with higher marginalization levels indicating more severe deprivation

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