The graphs show how many malaysan students attended the primary and secondary school in 2005 and what physical activity they prefered among basketball, football, tennis, swimming and rugby.
Overall, there were more students attending the secondary school rather than the primary one. Both categories prefered another sport over football, in the case of primary children it was tennis, while for the secondary ones it was basketball. The least favourite sports were in both cases rugby and swimming.
The 40% of the 73.000 students attending the primary school chose tennis as its favourite activity. However among the 91.000 students of the secondary school, teh number of those who chose tennis more than halved. Football in the primary school was in the second place, with a 30% of students prefering it, whereas in secondary school this piece of data increased of a 10%. A significant increase of students playing basketball was seen between the two categories, the amount of students playing this sport more than doubled indeed, passing from 15% to 35%. Even though in both cases swimming and rugby occupied the last places, there were some slight differences. While rugby was chosen by 5% by each studemts’ group, swimming is the favourite sport of 5% of the secondary students, exactly half of that of the primary ones.