The bar chart below shows the percentage of population playing ten top sports in Canada in 1998 and 2005. v.2

The bar chart compares the proportion of the Canadian who took part in ten most popular sports in two separate years 1998 and 2005. It is clear from the given chart that golf was by far the most attractive sport. The most significant change was seen in baseball after 7 years period, while others saw a minor ones. In 1998, nearly 22 per cent of Cacada residents chose to play golf, which was considerably higher than the rest sports, followed by a slight rise to 23 per cent in 2005. This upward trend also saw in cycling and soccer, which players increased to 6 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively in the final year surveyed. Baseball witnessed the largest gap between two years in terms of people joining this sport, which approximately a half of those players fell after 7 years. Ice hockey, similarly, although attracted almost 18 per cent population in 1998, saw a downward tendency to around 17 per cent in 2005. The percentage of those people were involved in the rest of top ten sports also reduced by about a mere 2 per cent after 7 years period surveyed, namely tennis, downhill skiing, volleyball, basketball, and swimming.