Active People Survey 2

Sport England commissioned the second Active People survey in 2007.

The second Active People survey revealed.

During 2007/08, 14.836 million adults (aged 16 and over) participated in sport at least once a week for 30 minutes at moderate intensity (35.8% of the adult population in England).
6.85 million adults (aged 16 and over) participated in sport three times a week for 30 minutes at moderate intensity (16.5%).

Sporting highlights

The 1x30 sport results will form the baseline for NGB 2009-13 Whole Sport Plan Grow targets.

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

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