Band 7+: The chart below gives information about the most common sports played in New Zealand in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart compares the percentages of common sports played in New Zealand in the year 2002.

Overall, the highest percentage of boys played soccer, while the largest percentage of girls played netball in New Zealand in 2002.

In terms of sports, in 2002, around 2% of girls played Cricket in New Zealand. In contrast, more than 10% of boys participated in this game in the same year in New Zealand. Although 10% of boys participated in martial arts in New Zealand in 2002, only 3% of girls were interested in this sport. During the year 2002 almost 25%of girls played Netball sports, while only 1 % of boys participated in that game. In 2000 in New Zealand, an equal number of boys and girls played athletics, basketball, and tennis; their participation rates were approximately 5%, 10%, and 10%, respectively.

For the remaining sports, in 2002 in New Zealand, 5% of girls played soccer, though boys had a higher participation rate of nearly 24% in the same sport. In the same year, the participation rate of girls was almost 23% in swimming, and the participation rate of boys was below 15% in this sport. On the other hand, in other sports, the participation rate of girls was half that of boys, which was around 20% in New Zealand during the year 2002.