The first bar chart illustrates the percentages of Australian children (aged 5-14) participating in cultural activities whereas the second bar chart provides data on the proportion of these boys and girls doing sports in 2003.
Overall, the majority of boys and girls these ages took up sport activities while not many of them were interested in cultural ones. It can also be observed that there was a higher rate of female children participating in almost every cultural activity in this year, with the exception of playing musical instrument.
Most male toddlers engaged in physical exercises at 70%, which was higher than the male’s figures for drama, dancing, singing and playing musical instrument combined. It is also worth mentioning that practicing music was the only popular activities for boys outside of sports, at 15%, 5% higher than that of girls. Meanwhile, under 5% of Australian boys took part in any other subjects.
As for girls, while only half of them played sports as a hobby, their figure for dancing was overwhelmingly higher than that of their male counterparts, at 25% compared to only 2% of boys. Among female adolescents, dancing was also done a lot more than drama and singing, whose percentages stood at a low of 5%.