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Hypothesis

Students who come from higher social class families will have a higher sport participation rate than students from lower social classes.

Analysis

  • Students who had low family encouragement had low participation results.
  • Students who came from two parent households participated in sport longer and was introduced to sports at an earlier age.
  • Students introduced at an earlier age(ages 3-5) had a higher participation rate.
  • Their were a few students who had high participation rates but did not have much family encouragement. These students claimed to still have other opportunities like high grade facilities.

Poll Details

Population Sample

  • Random Selection of students attending Arkansas State University
  • The students were selected from 5 different departments.
  • Each student was given the same survey
  • 42 students

Does Social Economic Class Affect Sport Participation?

The survey included questions pertaining to:

  • Past sport involvement
  • Current sport involvement
  • Social economic class
  • Grade of facilities offered
  • Amount of parent encouragement
  • Age introduced to sport

Survey Demographics

The purpose of our study is to prove that social economic class is the main determinant of sport participation.

7.2% African American

7.1% Asian

7.14% Latino

78.6% Caucasian

Survey Demographics cont...

28.6% Female

71.4% Male

Survey Results

Economic class

Lower Class: 7.14%

Middle Class: 42.85%

Upper Middle Class: 7.14%

Upper Class: 42.8%

Conclusion

Economic class plays a role in participation in sports but family Encouragement of sport is a bigger determinant of sport participation than economic class.

Survey Results

Family Encouragement

No Encouragement: 0%

Little Encouragement 21.4%

Plenty Encouragement: 78.6%

Survey Results

Hypothesis Explanation

  • 33% of students who considered themselves high class participated in sports 10+ years
  • 67% of students who considered themselves having plenty of family encouragement participated in sports 10+ years
  • 90% of students who participated in sports 10+ years were introduced to sports between the ages of 3-5
  • 100% of the students introduced to sport after the age of 8 had little to basic(1-4years)sport participation.
  • Only 7.1% of students surveyed who had a high amount of family encouragement did not have a high participation rate.
  • 85.7% of students introduced at an earlier age(3-5) participated in sports

Economic class can affect modes of transportation available, quality of available facilities, amount of family encouragement, and the amount of available time for extracurricular activities.

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