Sport participation 2010 : Participation au sport 2010, document de recherche

Fewer than one in ten individuals with a household income of less than $20,000 per year participate in sport, compared to 15% of Canadians with a household income in the range of $20,000 to $29,999 and approximately one in five Canadians with a household income of $30,000 to $49,999 or $50,000 to $79,999. [...] The participation rates in most of the tables in the report use the total Canadian population age 15 and older as the denominator. [...] In fact, the percentage point change in the past 5 years for those two age groups (15 to 19 and 20 to 24) was twice the decrease of the ‘25 to 34’ and ‘35 to 54’ age groups as well as four times the decrease of the sport participation rate of seniors. [...] Finally, gender tends to influence the sport participation rate of immigrants in the same way as it affects the participation rate of Canadian-born; female sport participation rates are lower than male sport participation rates in all of the immigration status categories. [...] In fact, the percentage of the population involved in amateur sport administration and officiating decreased slightly from 1992 to 2010 while the percentage of those involved in coaching went up, the actual number of Canadians involved in those sport activities went up as well (Table 14, p. 56).