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Children's Participation in Organised Sports and Dancing, A Pseudo-Longitudinal Analysis 2000 to 2009: An analysis of children's physical activity patterns, using data on participation in organised sport and dancing from the ABS 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2009 Survey of Children's Participation in Cultural and Leisure Activities.
What are the Odds? - Analysis of Variables Affecting Children's Participation in Organised Sport and Dancing: Investigates how children's organised sport and dancing participation changes in relation to selected socio-economic, leisure and recreational variables.
Child's Play: Children's participation in organised sport or dancing: As featured in Australian Social Trends article June 2012, this article looks at participation in organised sport or dancing for children, by selected characteristics relative to an average or typical situation. This article is also discussed in the Australian Social Trends Podcast episode - Child's Play
Children's Participation in Cultural and Leisure Activities (CPCLA): Summarises the results of the ABS 2009 survey of children's participation in organised sport and other activities outside of school hours.
Who Doesn't Participate in Sport or Physical Recreation?: This article featured in Perspectives on Sport Nov 2011, looks at characteristics of children who had not participated in sport or physical recreation using data from the 2009 Survey of Children's Participation in Cultural and Leisure Activities.
Children's Participation in Sport and Leisure Time Activities: A time-series analysis of children's participation in selected sports and activities from 2000 to 2009.
Australian Children Going for Gold - Children's Participation in Commonwealth Games Sports: This article featured in the January 2011 edition of Perspectives on Sport and looks at children's participation in five popular Commonwealth Games sports.
Square Eyes and Couch Potatoes - Children's Participation in Screen-Based Activities: This article featured in the June 2010 edition of the Perspectives on Sport and looks at the impact of time spent on screen-based activities in relation to children's participation in organised sport.
Indigenous People's Participation in Sport and Physical Activities: This article uses data from the ABS 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey and contains some information about Indigenous children's participation in sport and physical activities.
The following reports may be requested by emailing NCCRS@abs.gov.au
2009 Research paper: Children's Participation in Organised Sporting Activity
2008 Children's participation in sport and leisure time activities 2003 - 2006 - Multivariate analysis
2007 Children's participation in organised sport 2000 - 2003 - 2006
2005 The young and the restful (revisited) - the effects of recreational choices and demographic factors on children's participation in sport


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