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. 2012 Apr 5;12:274. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-274

Table 5.

Sport factors among male and female adolescents (F – frequency, % - percentage) and Kruskal Wallis ANOVA between sexes (H – H value; p – level of significance)

  BOYS
GIRLS
Kruskal Wallis
F % F % H p
Individual sport participation…
 
 
 
 
 
 
Yes, I’m still participating (1)
118
27.13
58
9.72
 
 
Yes, but not anymore (2)
166
38.16
153
25.63
 
 
No, never (3)
149
34.25
380
63.65
 
 
Missing
2
0.46
6
1.01
99.72
0.001
Team sport participation
 
 
 
 
 
 
Yes, I’m still participating (1)
152
34.94
62
10.39
 
 
Yes, but not anymore (2)
193
44.37
215
36.01
 
 
No, never (3)
87
20.00
314
52.60
 
 
Missing
3
0.69
6
1.01
145.74
0.001
Time of the sport involvement
 
 
 
 
 
 
Never involved in sport (1)
61
14.02
267
44.72
 
 
< 1 year (2)
66
15.17
90
15.08
 
 
1-5 years (3)
111
25.52
154
25.80
 
 
5 ≥ years (4)
194
44.60
82
13.74
 
 
Missing
3
0.69
4
0.67
153.77
0.001
Sport competitive achievement…
 
 
 
 
 
 
I have never competed (1)
137
31.49
383
64.15
 
 
Competition of the lower ranks (2)
200
45.98
135
22.61
 
 
Competition of the national level(3)
70
16.09
39
6.53
 
 
National team (4)
24
5.52
30
5.03
 
 
Missing 4 0.92 10 1.68 95.21 0.001

LEGEND: number in parentheses presents ordinal value for each variable.