The bar charts illustrate how many teenage boys and girls in VietNam engaged in sports and cultural events in 2003.
overall, while girls generally enjoyed cultural activities like dancing the most, boys tended to join sports and play musicals. Both boys and girls showed similar participation rates in drama and singing activities
About 25% of the girls in the survey said that they often joined dancing in their free time, compared to approximately 2% of their male counterparts. By contrast, the percentage of teen boys going to cultural activities to play musicals was far higher than that of girls, with respective figures being 15% and 10%.
The percentage of teenagers who preferred singing and drama was the same for both genders, with 5% of the total boys and girls participating in singing and 4% for both genders engaging in drama. Dramatic differences were also seen in the proportion of girls and boys doing sport, which was 70% of boys and over around 52% of girls.