Athletes’ demographic characteristics
| Age (years) | N (%) | Gender | N (%) | Sport category | N (%) |
| 18–29 | 439 (60.1) | Female | 370 (50.7) | Olympic | 569 (77.9) |
| 30–41 | 160 (21.9) | Male | 360 (49.3) | Paralympic | 135 (18.5) |
| >41 | 128 (17.5) | Did not answer | 0 (0) | Did not answer | 26 (3.6) |
| Did not answer | 3 (0.5) | ||||
| Competition status | N (%) | Union membership | N (%) | Awareness of declarations | N (%) |
| Currently competing | 490 (67.1) | Yes | 162 (22.2) | Yes | 124 (17.0) |
| Retired | 240 (32.9) | No | 399 (54.7) | No | 573 (78.5) |
| Did not answer | 0 (0) | Do not know | 167 (22.9) | Did not answer | 33 (4.5) |
| Did not answer | 2 (0.2) | ||||
| Level of competition | N (%) | Sports structure* | N (%) | Contact sport* | N (%) |
| International | 437 (59.9) | Team | 289 (39.6) | Yes | 129 (17.7) |
| National | 167 (22.9) | Individual | 440 (60.3) | No | 600 (82.2) |
| Regional | 125 (17.1) | ||||
| Did not answer | 1 (0.1) | ||||
| Judging* | N (%) | Secondary sport | N (%) | ||
| Subjective | 254 (34.8) | Yes | 107 (14.7) | ||
| Objective | 475 (65.1) | No | 617 (84.5) | ||
| Did not answer | 6 (0.8) |
Athletes’ demographic information was tallied in each box with the number of observations and associated percentages.
*Sports structure and contact were further computed by the authors based on respondents’ selection of primary sport and consideration of sport type categories proposed in 2004 by Fasting et al27. Sport characteristics (team sport, contact, subjective judging, level of clothing) data could not be computed for one respondent who indicated ‘other’ as their sport.