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
I'm pleased to see my stereotypical view of Canada remains intact, with Hockey being one of the top sports. However where is Curling? I thought this was a national past time in Canada? ;)
Linked is a PDF to U.S. Census stat’s Participation in Selected Sports Activities: 2005, swimming is number two in the U.S. just behind exercise walking, based on footnote number 2, participants engaged in activity at least six times in the year. But that is the same criteria that they used for almost all of the aerobic activities listed, including exercise walking, running jogging, bicycle riding etc.
www.census.gov/.../08s1222.pdf
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
I'm pleased to see my stereotypical view of Canada remains intact, with Hockey being one of the top sports. However where is Curling? I thought this was a national past time in Canada? ;)
Linked is a PDF to U.S. Census stat’s Participation in Selected Sports Activities: 2005, swimming is number two in the U.S. just behind exercise walking, based on footnote number 2, participants engaged in activity at least six times in the year. But that is the same criteria that they used for almost all of the aerobic activities listed, including exercise walking, running jogging, bicycle riding etc.
www.census.gov/.../08s1222.pdf
