Adults meeting physical activity guidelines (30 mins of moderate or 15 mins of vigorous activity 5 days per week) in New Zealand

Respondents were asked the following questions:
Q19: In total, how many hours did you spend being physically active for sport, exercise or recreation?
Q21: In the last 7 days (not including today), on how many days did you do: a) at least 30 minutes of moderate activity that caused a slight, but noticeable increase in breath; or b) at least 15 minutes of vigorous activity that had you out of breath?
Q55N: In the last 7 days, on how many days did you have at least 3 servings of vegetables and at least 2 servings of fruit per day?
Q60: In total over the last 7 days how many hours have you spent looking at a screen outside of your paid employment, study or school?
Q64+Q65: How tall are you without shoes What is your current weight?
Q66: Would you say that for your height you are…(Please circle one answer: Underweight, About the right weight, Slightly overweight, Very overweight or Don't know).
Q67: WHO-5 wellbeing indicator raw score - For each of the five statements, which is closest to how you have been feeling over the last two weeks?
1.I have felt cheerful and in good spirits. 2.I have felt calm and relaxed. 3.I have felt active and vigorous. 4.I woke up feeling fresh and rested. 5.My daily life has been filled with things that interest me.
Responses: All of the time, Most of the time, More than half of the time, Less than half of the time, Some of the time, At no time.

Sport: activities undertaken in a competition or tournament or informally, and individuals differ in their degree of competitiveness irrespective of how they participate.
Active recreation: all activities not considered to be sport. For adults - physical activity done specifically for the purpose of sport, exercise or recreation; for young people the word ‘recreation’ was changed to ‘fun’ and PE was also included.
Deprivation: based on the NZDep2013 index of socioeconomic deprivation, which combines census data relating to income, home ownership, employment, qualifications, family structure, housing, and access to transport and communications. It provides a deprivation score for each meshblock, NZDep2013 groups deprivation scores into deciles, where 1 represents the areas with the least deprived scores and 10 the areas with the most deprived scores. A value of 10 therefore indicates that a meshblock is in the most deprived 10% of areas in New Zealand. It is important to note that NZDep2013 estimates the relative socioeconomic deprivation of an area, and does not directly relate to individuals.
WHO-5 (World Health Organization Wellbeing Index): questionary designed to assess the level of emotional well-being over a 14-day period; a score above 13 is an indicator of good emotional wellbeing.

To account for biases in the sample design and non-response bias, the data was weighted before reporting. The purpose of weighting was to adjust the sample to represent the overall New Zealand population, using the 2013 Census.

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Sport NZ’s Active NZ Survey 2018 provides a point-in-time snapshot of participation in sport and active recreation explored through the lenses of age, gender, ethnicity and deprivation.

Sport New Zealand (Sport NZ) is mandated to monitor New Zealanders’ participation in physical activity. One of Sport NZ’s functions is to “promote and advocate the importance of participation in physical activity by all New Zealanders for their health and wellbeing”. This includes targeting specific population groups such as Pacific peoples, women, older New Zealanders and people with disabilities, as well as ensuring sport, recreation and physical activity are culturally appropriate for Māori.

This report primarily uses data collected through the Active NZ survey between 5 January 2018 and 4 January 2019 from 5595 young people (aged 5–17) and 25 150 adults (aged 18-plus).
It focuses on:
• how much participation happens in any given week, how many people are participating, and who they are
• how people participate
• how young people allocate their time spent in organised and informal participation
• what motivates participation
• what the barriers are to participation.