Participation in Sporting and Physical Recreational Activities, South Australia

NAME OF ORGANISATION
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

OVERVIEW

South Australia State Supplementary Survey - topic selected by State Statistical Priorities Committee and endorsed by Population Statistics Priority Committee.

PURPOSE

The Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing requires reliable statistics to facilitate decisions on policy and planning particularly for funding and implementation of sporting programs. Current participation levels are required for both non-Olympic and Olympic sports as the focus on the 2000 Olympic Games increases to ensure that equitable decisions are made.

SCOPE

Persons living in SA aged 15 or more years who are usual residents of private dwellings except:

1. members of the permanent defence forces;
2. certain diplomatic personnel of overseas governments, customarily excluded from census and estimated populations;
3. overseas residents in Australia; and
4. members of non-Australian defence forces (and their dependants) stationed in Australia.

Coverage

As per the Labour Force Survey, coverage rules are applied which aim to ensure that each person is associated with only one dwelling, and hence has only one chance of selection. The chance of a person being enumerated at two separate dwellings in the one survey is considered to be negligible.

Persons who are away from their usual residence for six weeks or less at the time of interview are enumerated at their usual residence (relevant information may be obtained from other usual residents present at the time of the survey)

DATA DETAIL

Conceptual framework

The target population is all persons 15 years and over living in SA.

The principal data items are:

• participation in sports and physical recreational activities
• for the three main activities - reason for participating
  
  level of participation
  frequency
  who organised
  location
  expenditure
  
• reason for not participating

Participation by selected characteristics

Reason for not participating by sex

Selected activities by sex/expenditure

Reason for participating by sex

Type of participation by sex

Classifications

Standard Monthly Population Survey classifications (not including industry and occupation)

Other concepts (summary)

Standard Monthly Population Survey definitions

GEOGRAPHIC DETAIL
South Australia
Part of State Metropolitan
Part of State Extra-Metropolitan

Comments and/or Other Regions

Small area data is not available.

COLLECTION FREQUENCY
Once Only

Frequency comments

Ad hoc

COLLECTION HISTORY

Ad hoc survey

DATA AVAILABILITY
Yes

Data availability comments