Gender and PA Participation
The analyses of gender with the three categories of extracurricular PA participation yielded some interesting findings. The findings of a statistically significant gender difference in outside of school PA participation with values being higher for boys, is parallel to the findings of other studies (Cardon et al., 2005; Eyler et al., 2006). Furthermore, the extracurricular PA participation analysis revealed that 27% of girls did not participate in any organized PA compared to just 4% of boys. Thus, the analysis identified a group of ten girls who were not involved in any sort of organized PA.
In regards to FC participation, there was no statistically significant difference between the genders. However, analysis did reveal a higher than expected participation rate than expected for girls and FC participation rate for girls (34%) than it was for boys (27%). Although the reason for this is unknown, it may be that school programs better serve girls.