Highlights
No significant differences were observed in habitual daily or hourly rates of physical activity (PA) or sedentary time among a nationally representative sample of preschoolers from 4 childcare environments (center based, home based, stayed at home with parent, school).
No significant differences in daily or hourly rates of PA (moderate-to-vigorous PA, total PA) were observed in boys or girls separately across the 4 childcare settings.
Daily and hourly rates of sedentary time were similar for boys and for girls.
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