Active People Survey 2

Sport England commissioned the second Active People survey in 2007. This survey of English people's sporting habits has been used to establish a baseline we can use as a starting point as we measure our progress in getting one million people doing more sport by 2013.

We have produced a factsheet outlining the survey results and relating them to the one million people target.

The second Active People survey revealed an increase in the numbers taking part in sport.

• 6.85 million adults (aged 16 and over) participated in sport three times a week for 30 minutes at moderate intensity (16.5%). In 2005/6, this figure was 6.3 million adults (15.5%), so there was a statistically significant increase of 552,000 adult participants in the two years between 2005/06 and 2007/08.
  
• Participation among females increased from 2.57 million (12.3 %) to 2.81 million (13.2 %), an increase of 240,000 over 2 years.
  
• Participation among adults from lower socio-economic groups (NS-SEC 5-8) increased by 100,000 from 1.81 million (11.8%) to 1.91 million (12.7%).

Sporting highlights

The survey also found that:

• Over 2 million adults in England (age 16 and over) volunteer in sport for at least one hour a week. This has increased by 125,000 between 2005/6 and 2007/8 (from 1.92 million adults to 2.04 million adults)
  
• There was no change in the percentage of the adult population who have received tuition between 2005/6 and 2007/8
  
• Between 2005/6 and 2007/8 there has been a statistically significant decrease in the percentage of the adult population who have taken part in organised competition, and the percentage of the adult population who are members of a club where they play sport
  
• Satisfaction with local sports provision significantly declined from 2005/6 to 2007/8
  

Factsheets

We have produced a series of factsheets collating and analysing the information nationally, regionally, locally and by individual sport.

• National results
• Regional results
• Local results
• Sport results