Children's athletics participation in England 2018-2021

This statistic presents the share of children who participated in track and field athletics in the last week in England, as of annual surveys conducted between 2018 and 2021. In the 2017/18 academic year, around 3.4 percent of children aged between 5 and 16 had participated in some form of athletics in the week prior to the survey. This figure decreased to approximately 2.1 percent by the 2020/21 academic year.

Share of children participating in athletics, track and field events, running races or jumping in the last week in England from 2018 to 2021

Characteristic	Share of respondents
2020/21	2.1%
2019/20	1.4%
2018/19	3.5%
2017/18	3.4%

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Release date

December 2021

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

academic years 2017/18 to 2020/21

Number of respondents

86,828*

Age group

5-16 years

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview

Supplementary notes

* Previous base:
2017/18: 109,503; 2018/19: 113,728; and 2019/20: 89,303.
This statistic uses original data from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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