Active Lives Survey, 2016-2017

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Active Lives Survey (ALS) commenced in November 2015. It replaces the Active People Survey, which ran from 2005 to 2015. The survey provides the largest sample size ever established for a sport and recreation survey and allows levels of detailed analysis previously unavailable. It identifies how participation varies from place to place, across different sports, and between different groups in the population. The survey also measures levels of activity (active, fairly active and inactive), the proportion of the adult population that volunteer in sports on a weekly basis, club membership, sports spectating and wellbeing measures such as happiness and anxiety, etc. 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 Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic developed rapidly during 2020 and 2021. Fieldwork for the Active Lives survey continued throughout the pandemic, which covered periods Nov 2019-20 and Nov 2020-21. The data from Nov 2021-22 onwards covers periods without any coronavirus restrictions. More general information about the study can be found on the Sport England Active Lives Survey webpage and the Active Lives Online website, including reports and data tables.

Latest versionIn July 2023, an updated version of the data file was deposited.

Main Topics:Topics covered in the Active Lives Survey include: Sport and physical activity Health behaviour General health and wellbeing Sports volunteering Sport spectating Club membership

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Postal survey

Web-based interview

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8391-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=78c0ef37567cf3657a86a00ce8b18c689b110215fd3182508cbc17807996867f
Provenance
Creator Sport England
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2018
Funding Reference Sport England; Department for Transport
Rights <p>Copyright Sport England<br></p>; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.</p>
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Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage England