Sports: Public Participation
(asked on 8th September 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the sports participation figures in each sport in each region and constituent part of the UK were in the (a) two years before and (b) two years after the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
DCMS is not responsible for, and does not collect data on, sports participation in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The data in the table is from Sport England’s Active People Survey which measures the number of people regularly taking part in sport in England.
Further analysis of the data, including a breakdown by sport, can be found here: http://activepeople.sportengland.org/
England | East | East Midlands | London | North West | West Midlands | Yorkshire | South East | North East | South West | |
2010/11 (APS5) | 14,758,900 (34.8%) | 1,644,100 (34.7%) | 1,227,400 (33.5%) | 2,228,000 (35.4%) | 1,986,000 (35.2%) | 1,440,000 (32.7%) | 1,496,400 (34.6%) | 2,470,600 (35.7%) | 715,000 (33.3%) | 1,551,500 (35.7%) |
2011/12 (APS6) | 15,512,500 (36.0%) | 1,709,000 (36.0%) | 1,304,200 (35.3%) | 2,398,000 (36.5%) | 2,066,500 (36.1%) | 1,511,200 (33.5%) | 1,557,100 (36.3%) | 2,622,300 (37.4%) | 759,800 (35.6%) | 1,584,400 (36.2%) |
2012/13 (APS7) | 15,462,600 (35.7%) | 1,678,700 (35.1%) | 1,263,100 (33.9%) | 2,466,200 (37.2%) | 2,055,800 (35.8%) | 1,512,400 (33.3%) | 1,560,200 (36.2%) | 2,609,200 (37.0%) | 742,20 (34.7%) | 1,574,800 (35.8%) |
2013/14 (APS8 Q2) | 15,643,000 (35.5%) | 1,716,600 (35.3%) | 1,295,600 (34.2%) | 2,497,800 (36.7%) | 2,050,600 (35.3%) | 1,516,000 (33.0%) | 1,535,200 (35.1%) | 2,646,300 (36.9%) | 745,900 (34.4%) | 1,639,100 (36.7%) |