Tuesday 14 April 2015

Australian's Favourite Sport

In Australia the most popular sport attending by people at the age of 15 or above in the last 12 months include Australian Rules football (16% or 2.8 million Australians), Horse Racing (11% or 1.9 million), Rugby League (9% or 1.6 million) and Motor Sports (8% or 1.4 million) 

Males in Australia tend to have a higher attendance rate for the majority of sports. Twice as many males attended motor sports (1.0 million) than females (0.5 million), as was the case for outdoor cricket (0.5 million males compared with 0.2 million females). Other sports which were predominantly attended by males were Australian Rules football (1.7 million males compared with 1.2 million females) and rugby league (1.0 million males compared with 0.6 million females)

However twice as many females, attended netball (123,000) compared with males (53,700). Females also had a higher attendance rate at indoor and outdoor tennis (1.9% or 171,000) compared with males (1.4% or 122,000)

By Alex

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