Table 3.

Boys’ and girls’ physical activity participation over the years

Boys	2002 11–13 years (n=865)	2006 15–17 years (n=575)	p Value	2006 11–13 years (n=686)	2010 15–17 years (n=715)	p Value
PA in the past 7 days (M±SD*	4.2±2.1	3.9±1.9	0.001	4.4±2.1	3.8±1.9	<0.001
PA in the past 6 months (%)†			<0.001			<0.001
Did not practise PA	5.4	12.6		5.5	18.0
Practised PA	94.6	87.4		94.5	82.0
Sports practised (%)†
Soccer	72.6	51.1	<0.001	69.8	45.1	<0.001
Basketball	22.1	13.9	<0.001	26.4	14.0	<0.001
Volleyball	8.6	8.6	0.082	12.4	9.1	0.010
Handball	9.7	6.9	0.104	11.8	7.2	0.002
Swimming	18.0	13.6	0.029	15.3	15.2	0.941
Athletics	12.7	7.8	0.002	13.8	9.3	0.007
Gymnastics	17.5	4.7	<0.001	17.1	7.1	<0.001
Cycling	22.7	17.0	0.006	24.2	14.8	<0.001
Type of sport activity†			<0.001			<0.001
Individual	8.7	13.6		8.3	13.4
Team	40.9	38.4		38.2	33.0
Individual and collective	38.5	19.7		37.8	19.7

Girls	2002 11–13 years (n=881)	2006 15–17 years (n=709)	p Value	2006 11–13 years (n=589)	2010 15–17 years (n=944)	p Value
PA in the past 7 days (M±SD)*	3.5±1.9	2.7±1.7	<0.001	3.3±1.9	2.9±1.7	<0.001
PA in the past 6 months (%)†			<0.001			<0.001
Did not practise PA	15.7	30.1		13.4	32.1
Practised PA	84.3	69.9		86.6	67.9
Sports practised (%)†
Soccer	35.3	11.1	<0.001	31.4	16.6	<0.001
Basketball	17.8	7.5	<0.001	16.6	9.7	<0.001
Volleyball	14.0	10.0	0.011	11.0	14.5	0.052
Handball	6.1	3.7	0.039	6.3	5.9	0.741
Swimming	25.0	14.8	<0.001	21.2	13.7	<0.001
Athletics	12.4	5.2	<0.001	11.0	7.4	0.021
Gymnastics	36.1	11.1	<0.001	28.4	10.0	<0.001
Cycling	12.8	6.1	<0.001	10.7	6.1	0.002
Type of sport activity†			<0.001			0.004
Individual	28.0	21.6		26.8	16.3
Team	17.0	13.7		21.1	18.8
Individual and collective	30.0	8.5		23.2	12.0

*Tested by student t test.

†Tested by χ² test

PA, physical activity.