The table compares the percentage of people who went cycling in one town in 2011. Overall, females showed bigger proportions in all age categories compared to their male counterparts. Moreover, the youngest age groups exhibited much higher numbers, regardless of their gender.
Focusing on the bigger numbers first, little over a half of the youngest age group rode bicycles, with a small disparity in numbers between girls and boys, at 51.4% and 50.3% respectively. There was, however, a much more noticeable discrepancy in the figures when it comes to the next age bracket, where/in which 42.2% of girls engaged in cycling compared to 24.6% of boys.
In contrast, only a small proportion of the adult population went cycling in this town. While 17.1% of women from the 18-39 age range rode a bike, the figure was considerably less for their male counterparts, with 9.7%. Women and men aged between 40 and 59 showed even smaller numbers, with their respective figures standing at 12.3% and 8.0%. As for the oldest population, they recorded the third highest figures as 18.5% of females engaged in riding a bicycle, which was higher than the proportion of male cyclists, with 13.2%.