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Indicator name:
Prevalence of insufficient physical activity among school going adolescents aged 11-17 years
Data type:
Percent
Indicator Id:
4482
Topic:
Risk factors
Definition:
Percent of school going adolescents not meeting WHO recommendations on Physical Activity for Health, i.e. doing less than 60 minutes of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity daily.
Disaggregation:
Sex
Method of measurement
 Self-report
M&E Framework:
Outcome
Method of estimation:
The estimates are based on self-reported physical activity using questionnaires.  Main data sources included the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS), the Health Behaviour in School aged Children (HBSC), and some other national surveys.  Where necessary, adjustments were made for the reported definition (in case it was different to the indicator definition), and for survey coverage (in case a survey only covered urban areas).  No estimates were produced for countries with no data.
Method of estimation of global and regional aggregates:
Global estimates as well as estimates for WHO regions and World Bank income groups were produced.  Country estimates were combined for each group, weighting them by population size of each country.  Countries with no estimate were not taken into account.  For World Bank income groups, groupings for the year 2010 were used, since 2010 was the estimation year.
Preferred data sources:
Surveillance systems
National survey
Contact person email:
gutholdr@who.int
Name:
Regina Guthold
Links:
WHO recommendations on physical activity for health
Global School-based Student Health Survey
Health Behaviour in School-aged Children
https://apps.who.int/infobase/
For questions or more information, please contact mncahdata@who.int.