The first chart below gives information about the money spent by British parents on their children’s sports between 2008 and 2014. The second chart shows the number of children who participated in three sports in Britain over the same period. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and making relevant comparisons.

The line graphs demonstrate the average monthly expenditure that parents in Britain advocated for children’s sporting activities and compare the attendance of juveniles in three separate sports from 2008 to 2014.

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, there was an upward trend in the amount of money spent on children’s participation in sports. With regard to the number of children taking part, football had precedence over the other two sports. In 2008, parents spent just around 20 pounds per month on their kids' sporting activities.

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, the figure went up steadily over the 6-year period and eventually hit the highest point of about 32 pounds by 2014. Looking at the participant numbers, in 2018, football was the most popular kind of physical exercise possessing over 7.5

million

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children, followed by swimming with 2

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and athletics with fewer than 1

million

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.

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soccer’s reputation remained relatively stable, participation in athletics went up exponentially and reach a fivefold increase

at the end

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of the period. A similar pattern on a smaller scale was seen in the number of juveniles who got involved in swimming.

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figure almost doubled and peaked at approximately 4

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