GENEActiv accelerometer files collected during the project entitled "Cultures et comportements alimentaires de la jeunesse dans les pays francophones du Pacifique au XXIème siècle: exemple de la Nouvelle-Calédonie" [Eng: "Eating cultures and behaviors of young people in French-speaking Pacific countries in the 21st century: the example of New Caledonia"] (anonymized version - first part)

<p><a title="GENEActiv" href="https://activinsights.com/technology/geneactiv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GENEActiv</a> accelerometer .csv files converted with a 1 second epoch from raw GENEActiv .bin files recorded during the project entitled "<strong>Cultures et comportements alimentaires de la jeunesse dans les pays francophones du Pacifique au XXI&egrave;me si&egrave;cle: exemple de la Nouvelle-Cal&eacute;donie</strong>" [en: "<strong>Eating cultures and behaviors of young people in French-speaking Pacific countries in the 21st century: the example of New Caledonia</strong>"]. Devices are 60-Hz triaxial accelerometers.</p> <p>This dataset also contains <strong>participantCharacteristics.csv</strong> that povides basic information about participants and <strong>read_a_binFile_share.R</strong> that is a short R code aiming at converting and saving accelerometer data from .bin files in 1 second epoch .csv files (consider the Methods section).</p> <p>Participant characteristics: 10 to 16 years old students and some parents.</p> <p>Number of participants: 231 (206 adolescents + 25 adults).</p> <p>Year of the study: 2018 - 2019.</p> <p>Place of the study: New Caledonia.</p> <p>The accelerometer .csv files with a 1 second epoch and extracted from raw .bin files are available in open datasets:</p> <ul> <li><a title="Open dataset - first part" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12615468" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anonymized version - first part</a></li> <li><a title="Open dataset - second part" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12638746" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anonymized version - second part</a></li> <li><a title="Open dataset - third part" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12682660" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anonymized version - third part</a></li> </ul> <p>The accelerometer raw .bin files are available in&nbsp;<strong>restricted datasets</strong>:</p> <ul> <li><a title="Restricted dataset - first part" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11594645" target="_blank" rel="noopener">non-anonymized version - first part</a></li> <li><a title="Restricted dataset - second part" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12638965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">non-anonymized version - second part</a></li> <li><a title="Restricted dataset - third part" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12661429" target="_blank" rel="noopener">non-anonymized version - third part</a></li> </ul> <p>Other participant characteristics (age, place of living, cultural community and socio-economic status) are available in a <a title="Information associated with GENEActiv accelerometer files collected during the project entitled &quot;Cultures et comportements alimentaires de la jeunesse dans les pays francophones du Pacifique au XXI&egrave;me si&egrave;cle: exemple de la Nouvelle-Cal&eacute;donie&quot; [en: &quot;Eating cultures and behaviors of young people in French-speaking Pacific countries in the 21st century: the example of New Caledonia&quot;] (non-anonymized information version)" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12195186" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restricted non-anonymized dataset</a>.</p> <p>When using this dataset, please cite the following reference:<br><a title="Wattelez et al. 2025" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.111228" target="_blank" rel="noopener">G. Wattelez, S. Frayon, O. Galy, Assessing physical activity/behavior of adolescents living in the Pacific with accelerometer data: 231 GENEActiv records in New Caledonia, Data in Brief 58 (2025) 111228, doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.111228</a></p>