­­­<p></p> A historical dataset for accelerometry-measured physical behaviours in rural and urban South African settings

Participants were recruited from rural forestry and urban office settings, and from the Dikgale Health and Demographic Surveillance System site, where women’s daily activities primarily involved subsistence-related tasks and walking for transportation.</p><p dir="ltr">The archive contains 373 accelerometry recordings, representing more than 2000 person-days of monitoring.

Thirty-four participants contributed recordings on more than one occasion. Waist-worn accelerometry data are provided in 60-second epochs in DAT and AGD formats, together with a recording registry, processed MAH/UFFE and ActiLife outputs, and processing documentation. Associated information includes sex, rural/urban residence, education, employment, household characteristics and anthropometric measurements.