The bar chart gives detailed information about participation in five sports by Australian children after school hours in 2010.
Overall, boys prefer attending football classes after school, while girls prefer this sport the least. A popular choice for girls is attending netball.
In 2010, the proportion of boys in schools who attended football was 20%, while girls showed the lowest rate of playing football compared to other sports with 4%. On the contrary, netball is mostly attended by girls, which is the highest participation for girls, approximately 18%. Boys had the lowest favorite sport for playing netball, with 2%.
For instance, boys attend basketball class for about 12%, while only 9% of girls prefer to participate in this sport. Similarly, while boys participated in swimming at 9%, girls showed 11%. A small part of the children who do not participate at all in sports showed both boys and girls, 2% and 4%, respectively.
