the first line graph illustrates the amount of money spent by British parents on their children’s sport activities between 2008 and 2014. The second line graph compares three types of sport chosen by children in an identical timespan.
It is clear that parents’ spending on their children’s sports in rose steadily over the period shown. Among three types of sports surveyed, British children attended football classes much more compared to swimming and athletics.
In 2008, British parents spent 20 pounds per month on their children sport activities. This trend rose steadily, reaching 25 and just below 30 pounds in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Finally, in 2014, the amount of money that British parents’ spent on their children’s sport peaked at just over 30 pounds per month.
in 2008, football classes was by far the most popular sport activity which attracted almostt 7.5 million British children. This figure followed by swimming and athletics classes which each welcomed less than 2.5 million children. In 2011, the number of children who chose to participate in athletics surpasses that of swimming, while the figures for football classes attendees stayed relatively stable. Finally, in 2014, the number of children that participated in football classes stood at its highest, around 8 million which was still much higher to correspondent figures of athletics and swimming, which each attracted roughly 5 million and 4 million children, respectively.