Active People Survey

Sport England's Active People Survey provides detailed statistics on sports participation throughout the Country. The first survey results were published in 2006/7 and provided baseline information on which to measure Sport England’s overall target of getting one million people doing more sport by 2012/13.

The latest set of results (published in December 2009) show that the number of adults in England who play sport at least three times a week has reached 6.93 million, continuing the positive upward trend over the past four years.

Fact Sheet: overall sports participation

Fact Sheet: individual sport once a week results

What information does the survey provide?

Country, county and Local Authority area information for:

• Activity levels in sport and active recreation broken down by geographical area
• participation in individual sports
• Satisfaction levels for available sports opportunities
• Information on trends in participation
• Information on market segmentation - a useful tool in planning sports opportunities for the future

Further information is available from the research pages of Sport England’s website.