Average time young people aged 5-17 spent doing organised and informal sports and activities in New Zealand

By activity type, 2021, hours per week

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2021, Survey question: About how many minutes did you spend doing sports or activities in the last 7 days in this way / these ways?, Grouping variable: Total, Category: Total
Response	Hours
For extra exercise, training or practise without a coach/ instructor (informal)	0.75
In competition or tournament (organised)	0.59
In PE or class at school (organised)	2.1
Playing on my own (informal)	2.31
Playing or hanging out with family or friends (informal)	5.03
Training or practising with a coach/ instructor (organised)	1.52

Notes

Young people aged 5 to 17 were asked the following question:
Q16b: About how many minutes did you spend doing in the last 7 days in this way / these ways?
Q16: Where or how did you participated in sports or activities in the last 7 days?

Definitions

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.

Data calculation/treatment

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.

For more information

https://sportnz.org.nz/media/vp1izckx/active-nz-year-5-technical-report.pdf

Data provided by

Sport New Zealand

Dataset name

Active NZ Survey: Main report data tables 2021

Webpage:

https://sportnz.org.nz/resources/active-nz-changes-in-participation/

How to find the data

At URL provided, under 'Report and data tables' menu, download 'Main data tables (XLSX, 5899 KB)'.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: Active NZ Survey: Main report data tables 2021

From the dataset Active NZ Survey: Main report data tables 2021, this data was extracted:

Sheet: Current_Section 3_YP
Range: B7:BF46
Provided: 1,624 data points

This data forms the table Sport - Participation time in sport, PE and active recreation among young people 2021.

Dataset originally released on:

June 2022

About this dataset

Sport NZ’s Active NZ Survey 2021 provides a point-in-time snapshot of participation in sport and active recreation explored through the lenses of age, gender, ethnicity and deprivation.

Purpose of collection

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.

Method of collection/Data provider

This report 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.

Average time young people aged 5-17 spent doing organised and informal sports and activities in New Zealand

By activity type, 2021, hours per week

About this data

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