MONITORING & TRACKING THE FIELD - Participation in Sport - A substantially higher

Layout 1 MONITORING & TRACKING THE FIELD CFLRI’S BULLETIN SERIES MONITORING SPORT AND RECREATION IN CANADA Participation in Sport According to the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Figure 1: Sport participation by age Institute’s 2019-2021 Physical Activity Monitor (PAM), just 50% over one-quarter (27%) of adults participate in sport. [...] The percentage of adults participating in sport generally adults with a university increases with increasing household income levels, with 36% of adults living in households with annual incomes of degree report participating at least $100,000 indicating they participated compared to 19% of adults living in households with annual incomes of in sport compared to those less than $40,000. [...] The benefits of participating evidence in the literature in sport extend beyond just the physical to include psychological and social benefits as well.1 Research has demonstrating changes to shown that despite the known benefits of regular physical movement behaviours activity and sport, a sizable portion of the Canadian population remains less active. [...] These socio-demographic of revenue, closures, staff shortages).5 Local sport differences in sport participation noted in this study organizations are key drivers for sport participation in the have persisted over time and is similarly reported in other community and according to these organizations, 65% offer studies.2, 3 Other studies have noted a difference in sport programming specifically for. [...] Many With growing concerns around the safe return to indoor Canadians have experienced financial hardships during the pandemic,7 activities, sport and physical activity providers will require and so educating the public about ways to be financial support from governments to help make active that are relatively inexpensive, safe and that can be improvements to the design and operation of new and/ d.