Table 3

Multilevel linear regression-derived estimates of the association between educators’ practices and children’s physical activity (PA)

Educators’ PA promotion practices	Total PA (min/day)		Moderate to vigorous PA (min/day)		Light intensity PA (min/day)		Sedentary activity (min/day)
Educators’ PA promotion practices	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI
Formal PA promotion	−0.382	−4.05 to 3.30	−0.024	−0.07 to 0.02	0.280	−3.14 to 3.71	0.002	−0.01 to 0.01
Informal PA promotion	−0.748	−4.43 to 2.96	0.004	−0.98 to 0.05	−0.524	−3.97 to 2.94	0.003	−0.01 to 0.01
Overall PA practices	−0.388	−2.54 to 1.78	−0.007	−0.03 to 0.02	−0.082	−2.10 to 1.94	0.001	−0.01 to 0.01

Estimates are adjusted for province, rurality, socioeconomic status of the region and number of children in the childcare centre. Fixed effect variance ranged from 1.7% to 4.6%. Random effect variance ranged from 11.6% to 19.7%.