Band 6+: The graph below shows the participation of Australian children in sports outside school hours in 2014. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart demonstrates Australian children’s involvement in out of school sports hours in 2014.

Looking from an overall perspective, it is clear that boys took part four times more than girls in football activities. However, in Netball activities girls maintained leadership over boys with a high gap.

Following to the chart, swimming was one of the largest categories, which comprised boys (13%) and girls (16%) participants. Moreover, football activity had the highest rate of Australian boys (20%) however, girls (4%) took part almost three times less in particular type of sport. Nevertheless, in comparison with football, boys(2%) were smaller by a narrow margin than girls (18%) and girls had the leading position.

Additionally, in basketball activities boys (7%) were involved in engagements slightly more than girls (6%). Finally, 5 percent of girls had no sport engagements and this in boys was only four percents.