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

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Patterns of participation in RPA¹ 2019–2022: by type of RPA and gender²

Type of RPA	Any RPA			Club sport			Other RPA
Gender²	Female	Male		Female	Male		Female	Male
Category	%	%	p-value³	%	%	p-value³	%	%	p-value³
Did not play in 2019	0.6	0.5	0.376	17.4	8.7	< 0.001	11.6	19.4	0.012
Dropped out 2020 no return 2021	1.6	2.6		12.0	11.9		1.6	1.5
Dropped out 2020, returned 2021	12.0	15.0		44.2	50.8		3.7	3.2
Dropped out 2021	4.8	3.9		3.3	4.7		10.3	10.2
Continued 2019–2021	81.0	78.1		23.1	23.9		72.9	65.8
N	516	620		516	620		516	620

¹ Recreational Physical Activity
² Four gender response categories were provided: ‘Male’, ‘Female’, ‘Other’, and ‘Choose not to respond’. There were no instances of ‘Choose not to respond’, and a count of 2 for the ‘Other’ category. With such a small sample size, the evidence base is small and the sampling variability cannot be reliably estimated, and so results for this category are not included in this table
³ Chi-square test comparing patterns of participation between genders for each type of RPA. Points of greatest difference between the significantly different profiles are indicated by the use of boldface type for the higher of each pair of percentages

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