The regular involvement to a sporty activity is in regression in the country: at the 15 years and more, only 28% of the Canadians devoted to themselves of it in 2005, compared to 45% in 1992. However, the physical activity of leisure is in progression.
It is what takes out again a report published by Statistical Canada1, that measured the degree of implication of the population in a sporty activity at the rate of at least a session per week, during one season or more, during the previous year.
Statistical Canada defines sport like an activity " who implies two participants or more in the goal to deliver itself/themselves competition, in a setting accompanied with rules and official methods »2.
Except the island-of-prince, all Canadian provinces display a decrease of the sporty involvement. The biggest reduction occurred to Quebec, making go the province from first to last rank by the country. In 1998, the rate of involvement was of 38%, against 27% in 2005.
The ageing of the population would explain largely the decline of the involvement to the sports. More one advances in age, less one takes to a sporty activity, explain Statistical Canada. Among the other evoked motives, let’s underline the constraints of time, the domestic obligations, the career, the lack of interest, without forgetting the monitoring of the television and the navigation on Internet,.
The sportiest
Within the population, the sportiest are the students (51%), followed some workers full-time (31%).
Otherwise, the men (36%) were hired more in sporty activities that the women (21%), in 2005. It is all the same less that in 1998, where these proportions were respectively of 43% and 26%.
The ten sports the more practiced are: golf, the hockey on ice, the swimming, the soccer, the basketball, the baseball, the volleyball, the alpine ski, the cycling and tennis.
At the men, the hockey arrives to the first rank (25,9%), followed of near golf (25,2%), then of the basketball (9,7%). The women prefer the swimming (18,7%), golf (12,2%), the soccer (11,3%) and volleyball (11,1%).
There is not that sport!
This reduction of the sporty involvement is, in part, compensated by an interest increased of the Canadians for other activities that make them move.
Thus, the involvement to physical activities of leisure passed of 46%, in 1998-1999, to 51%, in 2005, at the 12 years and more.
Among the practiced activities, one recovers the dance, the pedestrian hike, the jogging, the ninepins, the aquifer and the practice notably in a gymnasium.
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