More interesting numbers: the text says kayaking particularly appears
to 16 to 24 year-olds. But the source material which Garrison quotes
in a second message, says that ~31% are 16-24 and ~28% are 45 and +.
Statistically almost identical. Ditto the 25-34 and 35-44
demographics. 21% aand 20%. One more example of a reporter looking at
the numbers, then writing whatever the heck he believes.

The reporter also quotes a 21-year-old as saying "The younger
generation is looking for more risky-type sports, something to test
their limits more," yet the overwhelming majority of American kayakers
are sea-kayakers or rec-boat paddlers who call themselves kayakers,
neither of which is much of a "risky-type sport".

Somehow, no-one seems to have clued the reporter into the fact that
there are two very different types of kayaking, and so he has made no
effort to adjust his statistics and his quotations to fit the
appropriate kayaking regime.


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Wilko wrote:
Garrison Hilliard wrote:
Growing popularity
The Outdoor Industry Foundation based its estimates from its 2005 survey on the
results of an annual telephone survey using scientific sampling. The foundation
interviewed 2,000 people over the age of 15 and gauged their participation in 22
outdoor activities.

An estimated 12.6 million people got into a kayak at least once last year. About
2 million of them kayak regularly.

In 1998, about 4.2 million people had kayaked, and about 400,000 did it
regularly.

Kayakers tend to be young. Roughly 31 percent are in the 16-to-24 age group.
About 20 percent are 25-to-34, 21 percent are 35-to-44, and 28 percent are 45 or
older.

More women are kayaking these days. About 45 percent of the total were female, a
5 percent increase from the foundation's 2004 survey.

Interesting numbers, Gilliard. I just wonder what kind of kayaking those
45% of women participate in... Because I haven't seen that many yet. :-)


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