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2. Gender difference
From the perspective of gender distribution, in China
and Taiwan there are more male elderly people than
females who like jogging, hiking, swimming, and
ball sports. And more females like dancing and yoga.
Evidently this has something to do with the genders.
3.Income difference
Doing sports requires equipment, facilities and
professional knowledge. Thus, sport population
can keep doing sports on a regular basis and avoid
improper sports injuries. It can only make possible that
when people have economic independence or basic
educational background. While doing sports needs
the basic economic base. Does it mean that the sports
population have more economic power than the non-
sports population?
In the studies of IEK, there are criteria of family incomes.
Every city in China and Taiwan, certain discrepancies
are setup. The samples represent the middle and high
income groups. In the surveys, the average family
income in Taiwan is TWD 90,885 and that in China is
TWD 45,672. If only calculating the family monthly
income of the sports population, the family income of
the Happy Aging in Taiwan would drop to TWD 90,816
and Chinese family income drops to TWD 45,622.
This is different from the general judgement. Is it true
that the “Happy Aging” has worse economic conditions
than the non-sports population? If we exclude the
walking population from the major sports categories,
we find that the family income of the Happy Aging
sports population in Taiwan increases up to TWD
92,236 and the family income of Chinese elderly
sports population also goes up to TWD 46,712.
• If we only calculate the Happy Aging doing
jogging, Taiwanese family income increases up
to TWD 95,902 and Chinese family income will
increase up to TWD 50,075.
• If we only calculate the Happy Aging doing yoga,
Taiwanese family income increases up to TWD
99,054 and Chinese family income will increase up
to TWD 47,467.
• If we only calculate the Happy Aging who swim,
Taiwanese family income increases up to TWD
101,077 and Chinese family income will increase
up to TWD 51,266.
This is not a question that sports category has no
connection with family income but excessive walking
population is counted into the sports population. It
dilutes the income of sports population. In fact, the
elderly sports population doing a specific kind of
sports, the preferred sport categories do have a close
relationship with their family income.
3. Demands and preferences of
sports information technology
products
In the recent years, wearable devices have become
a buzz word. Not only did original producers increase
the production lines drastically but also investors