The bar chart illustrates how many people attended in ten different common sports activities across Canada between 1998 and 2005.
Overall, what stands out from the chart is that, all sports types experienced an increasing trend over the period shown, while soccer was the only one whose figures decresed. Another interesting feature is that, golf remained the highest number of participants among the other sports. In addition, the gap between participants’ rate was significantly wide in baseball sector.
Looking into more detail, in 1998, golf category was relatively highest at above 23%. Following closely behind this, ice hockey and baseball stood at above 15% category . Meanwhile, swimming activity occupied at 10% category. However, under 10% rate there were other sport activities: tennis, cycling, alpine skiing, volleybal, basketball, and socer, remaining the lowest share of participants in this sport.
By 2005, there had have been several significant changes. First of all, the number of golf participants decreased slightly to just above 20%, still remaining the highest figure. The figures for ice hockey experienced a marginal fall to around 17%. While swimming activities also remained a remarkable drop to just above 10%, soccer sport increased slightly to just above 10%, being the only one who underwent a rise. Baseball sector halved significantly to about 7%. In one word, other sport sectors such as, tennis, cycling, downhill, volleyball,and basketball also decresed nigligibly, keeping their share category.