Consultant: Cambridge Econometrics

The Research
Sport England has commissioned Cambridge Econometrics to undertake an evaluation of the economic impact of sport, initially on a pilot basis in three of Sport England's regions (the East Midlands, South East, and Yorkshire). The economic impact model developed in the pilot phase will then be applied to the remaining six regions.

The aims of this research are to:

• Develop a standard economic model that can be applied to all of Sport England's regions to enable comparability between regions and providing a relatively easy mechanism whereby the assessments can be updated to enable us to measure change over time
  
• Conduct economic impact of sport assessments in all 9 Sport England regions
  
• Report the economic value of sport in these regions.

The specific research objectives are to:

• Critically assess the LIRC national methodology in terms of its applicability to regional economic impact of sport assessments
  
• Identify the regional sources of relevant economic data
  
• Identify where relevant economic data is not available at the regional level
  
• Collect relevant regional economic data
  
• Apply the LIRC model (or an alternative model if considered to be more appropriate at a regional level) to the regional economic data, initially from 3 pilot regions, in order to ascertain the overall economic impact of sport in each region
  
• Modify the model, as necessary, based on its application to the 3 pilot regions
  
• Apply the modified model (if modifications are required) to the regional economic data from the remaining 6 Sport England regions.

Progress to date: Project completed.

Reports

Final Report National study (169 Kb) PDF

East (171 Kb) PDF

East Midlands (177 Kb) PDF

London (162 Kb) PDF

North East (177 Kb) PDF

North West (179 Kb) PDF

South East (174 Kb) PDF

South West (176 Kb) PDF

West Midlands (173 Kb) PDF

Yorkshire (175 Kb) PDF