The table comapres the number of primary school and secondary school students while the pie charts illustrate the result of the survey that indicates the favourite sport of students in Malaysia in 2005. Overall, primary school had the most number of students and Tennis was the most favourite sport in primary school while in secondary school, most of students prefered playing Football.
73,000 students studied at primary school and 91,000 students was at secondary school. In the primary school, the result shows that Tennis and football were the most popular sports among students, 40% and 30% of them liked to play tennis and football respectively. Other sports, such as basketball, swimming, and rugby were less popular. According to the survey, just 15% of students wanted to play basketball. From the 15% remained students, 10% were didcated to swimming and just 5% of them persuited rugby.
In the Secondary school, football was popular and 40% of pupils liked to play football, but, unlike the primary school basketball was the second most favourite sport with 35% of popualrity. rugby and swimming had the equal figures in the secondary school, just 5% of students liked to play them. Finally, tennis was less popular in the secondary school than the primary school and 10% of the secondary school’s students followed tennis.