The table compares the percentages of males and females in five age groups who rode bicycles in a particular town in 2011.
Overall, women were more likely than men to cycle in every age group. Bicycle use was highest among children aged 0-9 and generally declined with age, reaching a low among 40-59-year-olds before rising again in the oldest age group. The gender difference was smallest among children and considerably wider among older children and adults.
Among those aged 0-9, the proportions of female and male cyclists were almost identical, at 51.4% and 50.3%, respectively. Among 10-17-year-olds, however, the gap was much more pronounced: 42.2% of females rode bicycles, compared with 24.6% of males.
The figures fell sharply in the 18-39 age group, to 17.1% for females and 9.7% for males, and declined further among 40-59-year-olds, when they reached their lowest levels of 12.3% and 8.0%, respectively. In contrast, cycling became more common among people aged 60 and over, with the female figure rising to 18.5% and the male figure to 13.2%. Despite this increase, the proportion of female cyclists remained higher than that of male cyclists.