**8. The declarations of German school students on practicing sports after graduating from school**

The study also examined the opinions of German school students regarding their intended sport activity after completing school education. The vast majority of respondents (81%) declare their intention to practice sport after finishing school (**Figure 6**). At the same time, the very low percentage of the respondents who do not intend to be active in sports in the future (8%) deserves to be emphasized.

#### *Selected Aspects of Sports: Recreational Activity of German School Students DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.97741*


**Table 20.**

*The declarations of German school students on practicing sports after finishing school (boys: n = 184; girls: n = 203).*


#### **Table 21.**

*The declarations of German male school students on practicing sports after finishing school (large city: n = 91; small town: n = 93).*


#### **Table 22.**

*The declarations of German female school students on practicing sports after finishing school (large city: n = 97; small town: n = 106).*

Taking into account all the opinions of the surveyed youth, it is possible to positively forecast their participation in sporting activities in the future.

ROC statistical analysis regarding German youth declaration on practicing sports after graduation (**Table 20**) did not show statistically significant differences between boys and girls (*p* > 0.05). It should be emphasized that the surveyed girls 1.8 times more often than boys declare that they do not intend to do sports after graduation and almost twice as often, that they have not yet decided whether they will practice sports in the future (OR = 1.98).

The results of ROC statistical analysis included in **Tables 21** and **22**, relate to declarations of German boys and girls from various residential environments about the intention to practice recreational sport after graduating from school. Based on the results of analysis, it can be concluded that both boys and girls report similar predictions because no response categories showed statistically significant differences (*p* > 0.05). It is worth emphasizing that boys from large cities almost twice as often as boys from small towns declare that they do not yet know whether they will play sports after graduating from school (OR = 1.84).
