**5. Place of performing sports of German school students**

**Figure 4** shows the results of research regarding the various places for sport performance by the studied youth. The most popular areas are outdoors (56.5%), sports clubs, to which more than half of the studied respondents belonged, and commercial sports facilities (40.2%). Every <sup>1</sup> /5 subject participates in extracurricular sports organized by the school. The least popular place in the opinion of German school youth is fitness club, declared only by 7.5% of the respondents.

Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) statistical analysis, as shown in **Table 10**, showed that outdoor areas (*p* = 0.00883, OR = 1.31) and commercial sports facilities (*p* = 0.00706; OR = 1.49) are significantly more popular places for performing sports among boys. Sports clubs are also more popular among the male youth (OR = 1.25) although there are no significant statistical differences (*p* = 0.05815) regarding this category.

Based on the analysis of the ROC statistical results on the popularity of places for performing sports by boys (**Table 11**) and girls (**Table 12**) from large cities and small towns, it can be concluded that environmental conditions do not significantly

**Figure 4.**

*Places of practicing sports declared by German school students (in percentages).*


#### **Table 10.**

*Places of practicing sports declared by German school students (boys: n = 184; girls: n = 203).*


**Table 11.**

*Places of practicing sports declared by German male school students (large city: n = 91; small town: n = 93).*


**Table 12.**

*Places of practicing sports declared by German female school students (large city: n = 97; small town: n = 106).*

affect the choice of places to practice sports both among boys and girls. There were no statistically significant differences in these declarations, and the relative odds of choosing the locations were similar in both the male and female populations, with the exception of the relatively larger participation of boys (OR = 1.53) and girls (OR = 1.50) coming from large cities in fitness club classes.
