Band 5+: The graph gives information about male and female gym membership between 1980 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph provides statistics about the number of women and men visiting sports centre during the period from 1980 till 2010.

Overall, it is clear that amount of female gym memberships experienced growth with some fluctuations over the time. However male sport participation was generally higher, it witnessed the significant growths and falls during the time period.

Number of the women’s gym memberships started at just over 1000 in 1980 with subsequent rise with small fluctuation. Then, it peaked at slightly lower than 3000 in 1995 and declined to around 2200 in 2000. Afterwards, number of women attending sports centre slightly declined but recoverd again to almost 3000 followed by another fall.

Regarding male gym attendence, initially the figure was higher, at slightly over 2000 in 1980. Further, it substantially surged to nearly 4000, hower then plunged to around 1600 in 1995. In the year of 2000, male gym membership began to grow rapidly achieving it maximum at 5000 in 2005. Afterwards, the figure dramaticly declined to below 1000 in 2010.