Active Lives Survey - Demographics
Description
Monitoring inactivity levels over time is critical to understanding progress and benchmarking performance. However, the real insight comes from drilling down into the data and understanding how activity rates differ across different demographic characteristics. This dataset relates to information extrapolated from the November 2019-2020 Active Lives release and the figures in the table show inactivity levels in the Black Country for each demographic group listed.
Inactivity is defined as achieving less than 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week.
| Demographics | Black Country Inactivity Rate |
| All People | 36.4% |
| Identify as Male | 37% |
| Identify as Female | 36.1% |
| Aged 16 - 34 | 31.6% |
| Aged 35 - 54 | 35.2% |
| Aged 55 - 74 | 36.6% |
| Aged 75+ | 56% |
| White British | 35.8% |
| Asian (excluding Chinese) | 38.7% |
| NS SEC 1-2 | 27.8% |
| NS SEC 3-5 | 32% |
| NS SEC 6-8 | 40.6% |
| Disability or Long-Term Health Condition | 50.8% |
| No Disability or Long-Term Health Condition | 32.1% |
| Employed | 30.7% |
| Unemployed | 40% |
| Retired | 45.6% |
Commentary
Please note, no data was available at Black Country level for people who identify their gender as something other than male or female. Similarly, the sample only allowed for analysis of white and Asian (excluding Chinese) respondents. Whilst other ethnic groups were surveyed, they weren’t sufficiently represented in the sample to allow for accurate statistics to be available.
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