It is a hopeless question i know. I am just wondering how popular is swimming among all amateur sports or exercises? Obviously there are more runners than swimmers, but like what percentage of people take swim as the main regular exercise or sport, among all who do exercises? Would 1% sound close?
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Statistics Canada (a federal government department) did a survey of sport participation in 2005. It found that about 750,000 Canadians age 15 and over swam at least once a week. That's about a 2.9% participation rate. You can see some more stats and graphs of the most popular sports here:
mymsc.ca/.../sports_participation_in_canada_2005
Unfortunately, the definition of sport used excluded activities like non-competitive running so there is no answer provided as to their relative popularity.
The relative popularity of the various sports likely varies somewhat between Canada and the US but it does provide some hard data.
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Statistics Canada (a federal government department) did a survey of sport participation in 2005. It found that about 750,000 Canadians age 15 and over swam at least once a week. That's about a 2.9% participation rate. You can see some more stats and graphs of the most popular sports here:
mymsc.ca/.../sports_participation_in_canada_2005
Unfortunately, the definition of sport used excluded activities like non-competitive running so there is no answer provided as to their relative popularity.
The relative popularity of the various sports likely varies somewhat between Canada and the US but it does provide some hard data.
