The table illustrates how the percentage of involvement in three disparate physical activities at a particular UK sports club varied from 1995 to 2015.
Overall, the participation rates of team sports and gym activitiesincreased over the given period, while swimming witnessed a decrease in its proportion. Owing to these progressive variations, interest in swimming was minimized, commencing with the dominant position and concluding as the least popular activity.
Regarding the swimming participation rate, this accounted for 40% in 2000, from a starting point of half of total club’s members joining the activity in 1995 before plummeting to 35% lower in 2010. Thereafter, the figure did not observe any shift, remaining unchanged until the end of the tracking period. Moving on to the remaining activities, collaborative sports and gym activity exhibited growth by varying extents. At the outset, the former stablized at over 30% until the year 2000, while the latter was the least popular activity, registering only 5% of the total members, and rose gradually to approximately 10% after that. Then, both participation rates underwent a significant increase to 40% and around 25%, respectively, surpassing that of swimming in the year 2010. Finally, gym participants decreased negligibly, whereas collaborative activities shrank markedly back to the starting point of 30%. Despite this change, the figure of team sports maintained its leading position after exceeding the rate of swimming participation.