The given table provides detailed insight into the number of students in a primary and a secondary school in 2005 in Malaysia, while charts provide a comparative analysis of favourite sports of students in given schools. Overall, it can be noted that the number of students in the secondary school was greater than that of in primary school. In secondary school football was leading kind of sport, in terms of popularity, followed by basketball and tennis, In contrast, in primary school tennis was leading, followed by football and basketball.
Firstly, the secondary school outnumbered the primary school by the number of pupils, with the gap of almost 20000 students. In the primary school the three most famous sports were tennis, football and basketball with 40%, 30% and 15%. respectively. At the same time, swimming and rugby together accounted for 15%.
Although leading type of sports by popularity in the secondary school were the same as in the primary school, differences were seen in percentages and ranking. For example, whereas in the primary school tennis was first, in the secondary school it was the third with 15%, while football was leading with 40%, followed by basketball which had 35% popularity. Notably, swimming and rugby constituted 10% together.