Total integrated SFRs in the intermediate bar region of each galaxy that includes the rows −3 to −1 and 1 to 3 as defined in Fig. 5. Upper panel: SFR_b for each galaxy vs. total stellar mass. A separation between almost zero SFRs and SFR_b ≳ 1 M_⊙ yr⁻¹ is clearly apparent. A vertical black line at SFR_b = 0.5 M_⊙ yr⁻¹ shows our classification into SF and non-SF bars. Middle panel: histogram of sSFRs when accounting only for the mass of the bar. In light green and light blue we show non-SF and SF bars according to their location in the upper panel. Going from SFR_b to s_bSFR_b does not change the separation. Lower panel: same as middle panel but dividing SFR_b by the total stellar mass of the galaxy. Again, the classification does not change.