Table 2.
Patterns of participation in RPA1 2019–2022: by type of RPA and gender2
| Type of RPA | Any RPA | Club sport | Other RPA | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender2 | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | |||
| Category | % | % | p-value3 | % | % | p-value3 | % | % | p-value3 |
| Did not play in 2019 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.376 | 17.4 | 8.7 | < 0.001 | 11.6 | 19.4 | 0.012 |
| Dropped out 2020 no return 2021 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 12.0 | 11.9 | 1.6 | 1.5 | |||
| Dropped out 2020, returned 2021 | 12.0 | 15.0 | 44.2 | 50.8 | 3.7 | 3.2 | |||
| Dropped out 2021 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 4.7 | 10.3 | 10.2 | |||
| Continued 2019–2021 | 81.0 | 78.1 | 23.1 | 23.9 | 72.9 | 65.8 | |||
| N | 516 | 620 | 516 | 620 | 516 | 620 | |||
1 Recreational Physical Activity
2 Four gender response categories were provided: ‘Male’, ‘Female’, ‘Other’, and ‘Choose not to respond’. There were no instances of ‘Choose not to respond’, and a count of 2 for the ‘Other’ category. With such a small sample size, the evidence base is small and the sampling variability cannot be reliably estimated, and so results for this category are not included in this table
3 Chi-square test comparing patterns of participation between genders for each type of RPA. Points of greatest difference between the significantly different profiles are indicated by the use of boldface type for the higher of each pair of percentages