The Relative Demands for Sports and Leisure in England

By P. Downward, Simona Rasciute. 2010

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Abstract This paper contributes to an emergent but growing literature, which is focusing on large-scale data analysis of mass participation sport. Distinct from the existing literature, a model is proposed in which sport demand is examined relative to the demand for other leisure, a structure suggested by micro-economic theory. Based on new data for England, which has been collected by the government department responsible for policy promoting Sport, Media and Culture, it is shown that the demand for sports is dependent upon the demand for leisure for the activities defined by the data collection exercise. This qualifies the existing literature and has implications for current policy.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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Citations in the corpus

• Understanding the importance of sport infrastructure for participation in different sports – findings from multi-level modeling (2012, background): “Thus, individuals can allocate market goods and time to invest in the ‘‘‘production’’ and then consumption of sport directly, or to the acquisition of personal consumption capital, or social capital that then underpins sports participation’ (Downward & Rasciute, 2010, p. 197).”