The bar chart below shows the percentage of New Zealander men and women who did regular physical activity in 2008 across different age groups. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar plot compares the percentage of people in New Zealand , have been engaged in physical activity across different

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classes and two genders.7 Regarding males,

it is clear that

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the trend started with a peak as high as around 50%.8

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experienced a decline of around 10% in the third group( 34to43).

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, the figure starts inclining throughout each group,9 , but it never recovers its starting position and ends with 47.2%.

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, the story is different when it comes to females. Their figure starts increasing from 46.9, peaking at the

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of 44 to 53 ( 54.2%),

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saw a steep rise to 48.1%10 as its final destination . When comparing the two genders, one can state that females dominate males11 through all groups except for youngsters, where there is a difference as little as 5% between.

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, the figures tend to become close to each other as

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increases and end up both around 49% both with slight variations.125

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, the percentage of active women was higher than that of men in equivalent

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classes except for the first group.6