The given illustration compares the proportion of Australian students of both sexes who attended 4 different
sports
games post-school in 2010.
Generally speaking, the number of female participants exceeded male ones in swimming, netball and no Use synonyms
sports
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whereas
the exceptions were seen in football and basketball. Linking Words
Additionally
, the number of boys was highest in football Linking Words
while
that of girls was highest in netball.
Beginning with football, the number of male students attending was 20% of the total male population, compared to a mere 4% of female students. Linking Words
However
, the adverse trend was seen in netball in which the proportion of female participants was roughly 18% which was 6 times higher than that of male participants.
Turning to the remaining statistics, the figures for swimming and no Linking Words
sports
were proportional as the respective data for males and females was 12% and 16% for swimming and 4% and 5% for no Use synonyms
sports
.
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Subsequently
, the statistics for males in basketball were around 8% compared to 6% of that for females.Linking Words