The table given compares the statistics on the proportion of four age brackets who took part in several leisure activities in Canada.
Overall, youngsters were more inclined towards recreational activities such as shopping or watching movies, whereas the older individuals showed a preference to less active ones. Additionally, the youngest bracket dominated in playing video game, while the distribution of those for listening to the radio and to the music tended to be more balanced
Regarding the top-ranking activities, shopping stood out with its figure attracting most people from the two youngest demographics, with 32% for the 10-19 group and 27% for the 20-29 group.This was followed by watching movies, which notably recorded at around 25% of youngsters ( 26% for the youngest bracket and 25% for the 20-29 group), while the corresponding figures for the 30-39 and 40-49 segment marginally stood at 7% and 5%, respectively. It can be also observed that the rate of older people who were into shopping only reached a mere 10% for the 30-39 year-olds and 3% for the oldest.
An opposite trend was recorded in knitting, reading and gardening, in which older brackets generated a significant disparity with their younger cohorts. Only 5% and 9% of people aged from 10 to 19 and 20 to 29 participated in reading, whilst the 30-39 and 40-49 group accounted for 25% and 35%. This was similar to knitting and gardening, when the proportions of participants in these groups grew by age, from a mere 2% in the youngest to 24% and 21% in the oldest group.
As for the remaining categories, listening to the radio and listening to the music witnessed a more evenly distributed composition, which ranged from 10% to the maximum of 17% in the three younger groups, while older cohorts represented 8% and 4%. Playing video games was the only sector where the youngest group was fourfold larger than that of the older demographics with 8%.