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School sports. Participants. By type of sport

School sports. Academic years. Participants. By type of sport Catalonia
SY 2013/14 SY 2011/12 SY 2010/11
Aerobics 1,365 1,370 1,602
Athletics 11,536 12,074 16,075
Badminton 1,565 1,951 1,727
Basketball 20,923 22,160 25,367
Bitlles catalanes 726 917 1,070
Cross country 31,679 47,115 41,326
Orienteering 1,863 1,969 2,912
Dance 1,491 1,072 1,169
Chess 2,562 3,234 3,354
Skiing 1,120 1,181 1,872
Funky 1,393 2,847 2,370
Football 1,037 1,057 1,204
5-a-side football 34,273 36,000 36,493
7-a-side football 22,098 24,500 22,467
Artistic gymnastics 2,449 3,062 2,002
Rhythmic gymnastics 6,352 5,731 5,271
Handball 6,280 6,243 8,333
Hockey skates 1,300 1,205 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Judo 2,702 3,388 3,355
Korfball 257 334 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Swimming 9,804 9,767 8,318
Skating 6,756 7,480 8,177
Multisport 12,231 14,992 19,624
Table tennis 2,501 2,908 2,940
Volleyball 7,833 6,570 6,681
Others 9,063 10,944 12,870
Total 201,159 230,071 236,579
Source: Consell Català de l'Esport.
Note: They only register sports that have 1,000 or more participants, starting from the school year 1999-2000.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: April 30, 2015.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

School sports games (JEEC)
Program planned and directed by the Presidencial Department of the Generalitat of Catalonia through the Catalan Sports Council and the Department of Education, whose main objective is to promote a model of education and school sport participation also include recreational and competitive aspects. The recipients are children and young people in Catalonia who represent the school, the school sports partnership or association of parents of students who are enrolled in school, or other entities registered or assigned the Express sporting organizations Catalan Sports Council.

Methodological aspects

This sport should allow maximum participation among the school population, especially of secondary school students and new students, and to make it compatible with the transmission of values and civic education. Divided by age groups according to the primary and secondary cycles, considering that the engine of this sport should be the school. This program envisages actions to foster an active participation of more women in sports.

The sports councils and federations clubs provide data and licenses, as sports licenses processed by the sports organizations (Decree 58/2010 ., dated 4th May 2010, sports organizations in Catalonia, Official Journal No. 6139, 31.05.2012).

The data on School Sports are provided by the Union of Sports Councils of Catalonia for the Catalan Sports Council, who also monitor other programmes, such as that of Technology for Sport and High Performance.

The School license eligible to participate in School Sports Games Catalonia.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".