The chart below gives information about the most common sports played in New' Zealand in 2002.

The graph compares the data about the most played sports by

boys

and

girls

in New Zealand in 2002.

Overall

, the percentage of

boys

outnumber the

girls

in all fields except swimming, netball and athletics.

Additionally

, the most common sport among

boys

was soccer,

while

for

girls

it was netball. As can be seen from the chart, soccer was the males' favourite field, which almost 25% of them chose to play, but only 5% of females were interested in playing it. A similar difference can be seen in cricket, in which nearly

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15% of

boys

chose

this

field versus almost 1% of

girls

. Men dominated women in fields including basketball, martial arts, tennis and other sports.

On the other hand

, about 23% of

girls

chose swimming,

while

almost 13% of

boys

decided to play it. Netball was the least favourite field among

boys

, which only 1% of them participated in,

whereas

exactly 25% of

girls

loved

this

game. Athletics

as well as

the other two fields was

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strong point, in which almost 4% of them beat 3% of

boys

.