Active Lives Survey, 2015-2016

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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.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 released.

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

A full list of all sports and physical activities can be found on p.6-7 of the Active Lives Technical Summary.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Web-based interview

Postal survey

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DOI http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8223-2
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=a0661f21174b0c619516a520c89f1fea81d937a8109ec37fe3deb35572ad90b4
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Creator Sport England
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2017
Funding Reference Sport England; Public Health England; Arts Council England; Department for Transport
Rights Copyright Sport England; <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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Language English
Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage England