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Average daily minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, by activity tercile and time of day, household population aged 6 to 19 and 20 to 79, Canada, 2007 to 2009

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There are two line charts.
The first chart targets the population aged 6 to 19, and the second the population aged 20 to 79.
Both charts share the same coordinates, namely:
There are in total 7 categories in the horizontal axis.
The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 16.
There are 3 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "Minutes".
The units of the horizontal axis are "Time of day" from "7:00 a.m." to "8:59 p.m.".
The title of series 1 is "First (most active)".
The title of series 2 is "Second (medium active)".
The title of series 3 is "Third (least active)".

Figure 3
Average daily minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, by activity tercile and time of day, household population aged 6 to 19 and 20 to 79, Canada, 2007 to 2009
Age group and activity tercile Time of day
7:00 a.m. to 8:59 a.m. 9:00 a.m. to 10:59 a.m. 11:00 a.m. to 12:59 p.m. 1:00 p.m. to 2:59 p.m. 3:00 p.m. to 4:59 p.m. 5:00 p.m. to 6:59 p.m. 7:00 p.m. to 8:59 p.m.
6 to 10  
First (most active) 5.8 8.0 13.6 12.3 15.0 12.2 10.6
Second (medium active) 3.5 5.7 9.1 8.4 8.9 6.8 5.2
Third (least active) 1.8 3.1 5.2 4.6 5.1 3.4 3.1
20 to 79  
First (most active) 4.7 6.0 7.3 6.5 6.0 5.8 4.4
Second (medium active) 1.5 2.1 2.8 2.9 3.0 2.3 1.8
Third (least active) 0.4 0.8 1.0 1.1 1.0 0.8 0.6
Note: All results for a given activity level differ significantly from the other two activity levels.
Source: 2007 to 2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey.