Australian sport and physical activity behaviours pre, during and post-COVID-19

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Patterns of participation in RPA¹ 2019–2022: by type of RPA

Participation pattern	Participation sequence²	Any RPA		Club sport		Other RPA		p-value³
Participation pattern	Participation sequence²	Count	%	Count	%	Count	%	p-value³
Did not play in 2019	000 010 011 001	6	0.5	145	12.7	181	15.9	< 0.001
Dropped out 2020 no return 2021	100	24	2.1	136	12.0	17	1.5
Dropped out 2020, returned 2021	101	156	13.7	544	47.8	39	3.4
Dropped out 2021	110	50	4.4	46	4.0	117	10.3
Continued 2019–2021	111	902	79.3	267	23.5	784	68.9
N		1138	100.0	1138	100.0	1138	100.0

¹ Recreational Physical Activity
² 0 = did not play 1 = played
³ McNemar-Bowker test for correlated proportions, comparing the profiles of patterns of participation in Club sport versus Other RPA. Points of greatest difference between the profiles are indicated by the use of boldface type for the higher of each pair of percentages

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