The provided table compares the proportion of the population of a town who cycled in five different age groups in 2011. Overall, it is clear that in all age groups, the percentage of women who engaged in a bike ride. It is also noticeable that for both genders, the highest participation rates were recorded in the age group under 9, while the opposite was true for the 40-59 group.
With regard to age groups with a larger proportion of participants, just over half of girls and boys aged under 9 participated in bicycle-riding activity, at 51,3% and 50,3%, respectively. In addition, this proportion remained high among the 10-17-year-old girls, at about 42%, while among boys aged 10-17, the percentage who cycled decreased by nearly half to 24,6%.
Concerning the remaining age groups, the older participants generally rode bicycles less than their younger counterparts, with 17,1% and 9,7% of the 18-39-year-old females and males, compared with only 12,3% and 8,0% of those aged 40-59 in turn. However, an increase was recorded in the figures for cyclists over 60, reaching 18,5% for women and 13,2% for men.