Statistics and Business Research Report

Question: Discuss about the Statistics and Business Research Report. Answer: Introduction The sports industry of Australia had been growing over a period of thirty years. The sports ministry of Australia had shown sovereignty by connecting the nations passion for sports and the cultural ambivalence for the religion and authority (Hajkowicz et al. 2013). The history of Australian sports states that it is an important part of Australians culture from the early colonial period. In this assignment, the history of sports industry of Australia would be studied. An idea about the methods of collecting data to study the sports industry of Australia would be given in this assignment. The methods of analysing and interpretation of the data would also be given in the assignment. Problem statement The problem statement of the assignment is the change in sports industry of Australia over the centuries and investigates its current situation. Research aim The aim of the research is as follows to find the change in the sports industry if Australia over the decades and the present situation of the sports industry of Australia. Research objective The objective of the research is as follows: To know the history of sports industry of Australia across the century To know the current situation of sports industry of Australia Research questions The research question of the assignment is as follows: What were the changes in Australian sports industry over the centuries? What is the current situation of the sports industry of Australia? Literature review According to the viewpoint of Eime et al. (2015), it was seen that sports came to Australia in the year 1810. Sports started in Australia with an athletics tournament. It was then gone on with cricket, horseracing, sailing clubs and various other sports competitions. As per the viewpoint of Gardiner et al. (2014), lower class Australians used to play sports during the public holidays while upper class Australians used to play sports regularly on Saturdays. The early hub of sports was in Sydney. It was seen that earlier forms of football was played during 1829 and the sports were played along the lines of class. The British government had banned blood sports in Australia by the year 1835 except hunting. Horseracing was establishes as a sports by the late 1830 in New South Wales and other parts of the country. Horseracing was also established as a sport in Melbourne in the year 1838. According to the viewpoint of Salcines et al. (2013), cricket was established as a sports when Melbourne Cricket Club was founded in 1838. Gambling was also introduced as a sport along with horse racing in the sports colonies. In the mid years of 1800, sports were used as a social integration across classes. As per the viewpoint of Scott et al. (2015), Australian football league was founded in 1858 and Melbourne cricket ground was opened in 1853. While Melbourne and Sydney had started having their regular sports for different games, it did not begin in South Australia and Tasmania. Badminton and ice hockey was introduced in Australia in the 1900s. An important sports event that was played by the Australians was the Ashes series that was played between the cricket teams of England and Australia. Sports became an important event in Australia and newspapers like Sydney Morning Herald began covering sports events by the year 1876. Victorian football league and Sheffield Shieldcricket competitionwere other important events that took place in Australia during the late 1800s (Hajkowicz et al. 2013). Various other events took place in Australia over time. Australia participated in both winter and summer Olympics from 1908. Australian the national rugby team won gold in summer Olympics in the year 1908. This was a milestone in the sports history of Australia. Winning Ashes series in cricket was also another milestone for Australian sports industry. According to the viewpoint of O'Boyle and Bradbury (2013), it was seen that the women also started participating in the sports events along with the men. The sports for women in Australia had various advantages over many other sport organisations of women around the world. During the period of post World War II, the sports organisations of women remained intact and they held various competitions during that period (Scott et al. 2015). Australian sports industry had developed over the years and they had established themselves successfully in the world sports industry. It was seen that the sports persons from Australia became efficient with time (Hajkowicz et al. 2013). The sport associations of various games had been holding different events successfully. Australian government had been holding sports events like commonwealth games, World cups in cricket and football, Australian opens in tennis and other events. Thus, the sports industry of Australia had witnessed various dimensions over the centuary. Methodology Data collection Secondary data would be collected for this purpose. The data about the history of Australian sports would be collected from the ministry of sports. Quantitative data would be collected for this purpose. The data would be collected for the past century. The participation of Australia in various international events would be recorded. The number of sports events held in Australia over the past century would be noted. Number of wins and losses in the sport events would also be recorded. The facilities provided to the sports persons and their salaries would e noted for the survey Data analysis The collected data would be analysed using statistical methods. Methods of frequency, descriptive statistics, methods of dispersion and correlation would be performed on the collected data. This would give an idea changes in various dimensions of sports industry in Australia over the century. Conclusion The assignment gives an idea about the history of sports industry of Australia over the centuries. In order to investigate the changes in the sports industry of Australia over time, an idea about the process of data collection was given in the assignment. The methods of analysing and interpretation of these data was also given in this assignment. The study of this analysis and interpretation would provide the solution of the changes in sports industry of Australia over the century. References Eime, R.M., Sawyer, N., Harvey, J.T., Casey, M.M., Westerbeek, H. and Payne, W.R., 2015. Integrating public health and sport management: sport participation trends 20012010.Sport management review,18(2), pp.207-217. Gardiner, S., Grace, D. and King, C., 2014. 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