Sport Participation - The Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute’s (CFLRI) 2019-2021 Physical Activity Monitor (PAM)

Sport participation among women decreased with increasing age, and the lowest rates of sport were observed among older women (i.e., from 40% among 18- to-24 year-old women to 10% among women aged 65 years and older). [...] Figure 1: Sport participation among adults by age and gender Source: CFLRI, aggregated results from the 2019-2022 Physical Activity Monitor Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute 1 The survey also asked adults to report on the regularity and frequency of sport participation; regularity of participation refers to how many months out of the year individuals participated in sport, whereas. [...] Figure 2: Regularity and frequency of sport participation among women Source: CFLRI, aggregated results from the 2016-2018 and 2019-2022 Physical Activity Monitor The gender gap in sport participation has persisted for decades. [...] Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute 3 One-quarter of women (20% of men) said that they participated in organized, whereas 69% of women (68% of men) reported participating in unorganized/unstructured physical activity or sport in the twelve months preceding the survey. [...] Specifically, 41% of women (42% of men) indicated that they were very satisfied with the amount of organized opportunities and 50% of women (45% of men) were very satisfied with the amount of unorganized physical activity and sport opportunities in the community.