The bar graph compares the proportion of boys and girls who participated in nine types of sports in New Zealand in 2002.
Overall, soccer played by boys and netball played by girls were accounted for mostly played games. Whereas, Very fewer players played cricket and netball by ladies and gents respectively.
Amony boys, most popular game was soccer, which accounted for 25%. The percentage of swimming sport was half of the soccer. In addition, tennis and basketball, and martial arts and cricket proportion was same, being 8% and 11% respectively. While, netball and athletics were least played sports with percentile of 1% and 3% respectively. Lastly, other games accounted for 18%.
On the other hand, in terms of girls, most common sports were netball with 26%, and cricket with 23%. Cricket was not common among girls and it’s percentage was equal to the percentage of netball played by boys. Martial arts, with 2%, was the second least played game. Moreover, there was marginal differences among other types of sports played. For example, 4% for athletics, 8% for basketball, 8% for tennis, 5% for soccer, and 10% for other kind of games.
