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The Active People Survey is the largest ever survey of sport and active recreation to be undertaken in Europe.
The survey provides by far the largest sample size ever established for a sport and recreation survey and will allow levels of detailed analysis previously unavailable. It identifies how participation varies from place to place and between different groups in the population.
The survey also measures; the proportion of the adult population that volunteer in sport on a weekly basis, club membership, involvement in organised sport/competition, receipt of tuition or coaching, and overall satisfaction with levels of sporting provision in the local community.
The questionnaire was designed to enable analysis of the findings by a broad range of demographic information, such as gender, social class, ethnicity, household structure, age and disability.
The first year of the survey, Active People Survey 1, was conducted between October 2005 and October 2006, and was a telephone survey of 363,724 adults in England (aged 16 plus) and is unique in providing reliable statistics on participation in sport and active recreation for all 354 Local Authorities in England (a minimum of 1,000 interviews were completed in every Local Authority in England).
Headline results from Active People Survey 1 were published in December 2006, with full, detailed results available via a sophisticated online reporting and analysis tool, Active People Diagnostic.
Due to the huge success of the Active People Survey 2005/6, Sport England is repeating the Active People Survey, and it is now a continuous annual survey, until October 2010.
The second year of the survey, Active People Survey 2, commenced on 15 October 2007 and was completed on 14 October 2008.
Active People Survey 3 (2008/9) commenced on 15 October 2008 and will run for 12 months until mid October 2009.
The Active People Survey also provides the measurement for National Indicator 8 (NI8) - adult participation in sport and active recreation. The survey also provides the measure for the cultural indicators NI9, 10 and 11. More information.
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