Active People Survey 4
Active People Survey 4 Results
Active People Survey 4 started in mid October 2009 and ran continuously for 12 months until the middle of October 2010. Click here to see the full data reports on the Sport England website.
The full year results were published on 16 December 2010. Headline results can be found below. More detailed sport specific results are also available to view.
Key highlights from Active People Survey 4:
- During 2009/10, 6.938 million adults (aged 16 and over) participated in sport three times a week for 30 minutes at moderate intensity (16.5% of the adult population in England). This is 123,000 more adult participants than the 2007/08 baseline.
- Compared with Active People Survey 2, sports participation among non-white adults has increased by 64,100, from 722,800 (16.1%) to 786,900 (17.3%).
- Since 2007/08, participation in athletics (including running and jogging) has grown by 263,400 to 1.876 million adults (4.5%) in 2009/10.
- Cycling has grown from 1.767 million adults (4.3%) in 2007/8 to 1.866 million adults (4.4%) in 2009/10, an increase of 99,200 participants.
