The table illustrates the percentage of males and females in 5 different age groups who did cycling in the year 2011.
Overall, females were more likely to cycle than males across all of the age categories. In addition, there is a tendency that proportion of people who rode bicycle is the highest in younger categories, while middle-aged people are the least interested in this sport.
Looking at the youngest category, just over half of females aged 0-9 rode bicycles, at 51.3%, compared with 50.3% of males. Among pre-teen and teenagers category (10-17), number of women who do cycling is almost double the number of men, with 42.2% while men make up 24.6%.
Turning to the older age groups, the percentage of females in the age 18-39 shrarply fell to 17.1%, but still predominates males’ figure by 7.4 points. Downward tendency is also could be observed in 40-59 group, where both genders’ percent undergone decrease to 12.3 and 8.0 percent, relatively. Regarding eldest people, it seems that they show even more interest than middle age group, making up 18.5% and 13.2%.
