Young People and Sport in England
- Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to establish the first ever collection of national statistics on children's involvement in sport, concentrating on their participation in sport in the twelve months prior to the survey, which took place in summer 1994. The study also aimed to explore some of the factors which affect children's involvement in sport, particularly that of their school.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Sport within school lessons, P.E. and games or dance at GCSE level, demographic data gathered included the respondents' age (6-16 years), school year (2-11) and gender, school size and type, and number of P.E. staff.
- Variables
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Sport within school lessons, and separately sport outside school; which sports (from a list of 40 choices) respondents participated in, and whether they participated in the sport less or more than 10 days within the year; sports enjoyed most and least in school sports lessons; whether respondents were studying p.e. and games or dance at gcse level (school years 10 and 11 only); whether respondents participated in any extra-curricular sports, and if so, which ones; membership of sports clubs outside school, and which sports covered; any sports participation at other clubs or organisations; how much time spent on sports outside school lessons; participation in sports competitions, and at which level; leisure and other activities done in free time; respondents' views on sport, and respondents' family and sport. demographic data gathered included the respondents' age (6-16 years), school year (2-11) and gender.
- Keywords
- England, access to facilities, adolescents, age, associations, athletics, attitudes, ball games, boating, boys' schools, child care, coeducational schools, combative sports, communities, curriculum, cycling, dance, educational administration, educational finance, educational levels, educational personnel, educational visits, electronic games, emotional states, enrolment, equestrian sports, exercise, extracurricular activities, families, family influence, fields of study, fishing (sport), frequency, future, gender, general certificate of secondary education, girls' schools, gymnastics, health, hiking, hobbies, home ownership, homework, households, housework, housing tenure, indoor sports, interpersonal communication, interpersonal relations, leisure time activities, lessons, membership, motivation, motor sports
- Identifier Variables
- N/A
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Lifestyle
- Area of Health System
- Public health
- Data Available
- Risk behaviours
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
- Data Type
- Survey (cross-sectional)
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1993, 1994
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
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Children aged 6-16 years, in school years 2-11, in state and independent schools. However, the childrens' schools and teachers also completed questionnaires to provide supplementary data on school sports. Sample size 5400 (target) 4437 (obtained)
- Availability
- ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive
- Conditions of Access
- Free registration access
- Link
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/snDescription.asp?sn=3554
- Contact
- help@esds.ac.uk
- Publications
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/publicationListForSN.asp?sn=3554