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Percentage of adults who have participated in a physical activity in the last year (19992) Metric type
- Help text
- This is the estimated percentage of adults aged 16 and over in the local area taking part in sport and physical activity in the past year. This is measured as the equivalent of 30 minutes or more activity of at least moderate intensity. This is taken from one or more broad activity categories of active travel, walking, cycling, riding a scooter, active play/informal activity, fitness, dance, and sporting activities. Activities done by those aged 65 and over were assumed to be at least moderate in all cases.
Moderate activity is defined as where you raise your heart rate and feel a little out of breath. Vigorous activity is where you are breathing hard and fast and your heart rate has increased significantly (you will not be able to say more than a few words without pausing for breath).
When making comparisons between figures, some differences seen may not be significant differences and so a degree of caution should be made before making conclusions. The survey was adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The survey sample is randomly selected from the Royal Mail’s Postal Address File ensuring a very high coverage of private residential addresses. The target sample size for each English local authority (excluding the City of London and Isles of Scilly) is 500 returns. Data may be suppressed for an area where the threshold of 30 is not reached.
Population totals are created using Office for National Statistics (ONS) mid-year population estimates.
Data is sourced from the adult Active Lives November to November survey.
- Modified
- 05 Feb 2024
- Data last updated
- 24 May 2023
- Short label
- % of adults who have participated in an activity in the last year
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a high value is good
- Measure
- Percentage of the adult population in a local area
- Dataset
- Active Lives Adult data
- Collection
- Active Lives Survey
- Source
- Sport England
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