Tennis: Public Participation
(asked on 16th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information his Department holds on the participation of people with (a) different socioeconomic backgrounds and (b) the protected characteristics listed in section 4 of the Equality Act 2010 in the sport of lawn tennis.
Sport England’s “Active Lives” survey provides data on participation levels in sport and physical activity.
According to the latest figures available (published October 2017) approximately 865,000 or 1.9% of adults aged 16+ participated in tennis twice in the last 28 days. The tables below provide a breakdown by protected characteristic and socio-economic status.
Data broken down by socio-economic group (where available)
Demographic | Share | Number (rounded to nearest 5,000) | |
Gender | Male | 58.8% | 510,000 |
Female | 41.2% | 355,000 | |
Disability | Long term limiting disability | 5.0% | 45,000 |
No long term limiting disability | 95.0% | 820,000 | |
Age | 16-34 | 39.3% | 340,000 |
35-54 | 31.9% | 275,000 | |
55-74 | 23.9% | 210,000 | |
75+ | 4.8% | 40,000 | |
Ethnicity | White-British | 81.0% | 700,000 |
White-Other | 7.2% | 60,000 | |
Asian | 7.3% | 60,000 | |
Black | 1.2% | 10,000 | |
Chinese | * | - | |
Mixed | 1.8% | 15,000 | |
Other ethnic group | * | - | |
Data broken down by socio-economic group
This data relates to adults aged 16-74 only rather than all adults aged 16+.
NS SEC 1-2 | 325,000 |
NS SEC 3-5 | 180,000 |
NS SEC 6-8 | 95,000 |
NS SEC 9 | 115,000 |
Notes
All Active Lives data is from the Active Lives release in October 2017 with the data from May 2016 - May 2017.
*It is not possible to provide data for participation rates amongst those who have a Chinese or other ethnic background, or for religion and sexuality as there is insufficient data to provide a result.
Socio economic status key:
- NS SEC 1-2: Higher social groups
- NS SEC 3-5: Middle social groups
- NS SEC 6-8: Lower social groups
- NS SEC 9: Students and other