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The Active People Survey 2005/6

The Active People Survey is the largest ever sport and recreation survey in Europe

The Active People Survey, conducted by Ipsos MORI on behalf of Sport England, started on the 15th October 2005 and was completed on 16th October 2006.

For more information and background to the 2005/6 Active People Survey view our FAQs here.

Active People Survey 2005/6 – headline results

Sport England published the headline results of the 2005/6 Active People Survey on 7 December 2006. To find out more about the headline results of the survey click here.

To view the results in map form click here

Detailed results from the survey: Active People Diagnostic

Active People Diagnostic is an innovative online reporting and analysis tool which gives stakeholders access to their survey results at the touch of a button. It is a unique resource providing state-of-the-art reporting and analysis capability which enables users to assess levels and patterns of sport and active recreation in their area or sport, and to benchmark and profile performance. Active People Diagnostic is a powerful local strategic planning tool and is being used by local authorities, county councils, County Sport Partnerships, National Governing Bodies, and many other national and regional partners.

To find out more about Active People Diagnostic, click here

Active People Diagnostic is a password-protected site with access for registered users only. If you would like to register for Active People Diagnostic, visit http://www.webreport.se/apd/login.aspx to fill in an online registration form. Once you have completed the registration form, you will be automatically sent an email with a password and link to the site.

Active People - further analysis: Small Area Estimates of participation

Analysis has recently been completed which models participation rates at middle layer super output area (MSOA). Active People already provides participation at a local authority level but in recognition that local authority areas are not homogenous and that there will be variation within a local authority, it was decided to model participation down to smaller areas.

The smallest geography which the Active People survey can accurately measure participation in sport and active recreation is at local authority level. Below this geography, the number of responses is too small to produce reliable figures. One solution to this is the production of “synthetic” estimates at smaller geographies. Estimates of the 3x30 participation measure* have therefore been produced for all Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOA).

Super Output Areas (SOA) were developed as an alternative to Wards for calculating small area statistics. Unlike Wards and other smaller geographies, all SOA represent a similar number of people allowing for comparability across smaller geographic areas. There are three levels of SOA; Lower, Middle and Upper layers. For this project, it was decided to use MSOA (Middle layer) information to produce smaller area statistics.

The 'synthetic estimates' methodology was pioneered by the ONS and the Department of Health. It is based on the principle that measurements like quality of health, unemployment or sports participation are partially a result of other variables such as ethnicity, social grade, employment status and educational attainment. Many of these variables are available at smaller geographic areas (mainly because they come from administrative sources rather than surveys). Therefore it is possible to produce a model which uses these variables to calculate estimates of key survey indicators. This was the method used to produce the 3x30 estimates.

This information has implications for the prioritisation of resources and investment decisions throughout the Delivery System and particularly within Local Authorities and Community Sport Networks (CSN’s) and will be useful for all those working in delivering sport locally.

Outputs for this piece of work are available in map form and show small area estimates by County Sport Partnership and Local Authority for each region. To read more about how the maps were created and how to interpret them, click here.

To view maps in your region, click here

For further information on the modelling process click here

To view the Small Area Estimates Technical Report click here

You can download the small area estimate data in spreadsheet form. Please refer to the Technical Report above before using this data. Download data.

*The percentage of the adult population participating in at least 30 minutes of sport and active recreation (including walking and cycling) of at least moderate intensity on at least 3 days a week

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