Inactivity within children and young people (school years 1-11, 2018-19 academic year), England

SUMMARY Levels of inactivity within children and young people (school years 1-11, aged 5-16) during the 2018/19 academic year. A child or young person was deemed to have been inactive if they carried out less than an average of 30 mins exercise a day (less than 210 mins a week) during this period. ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY Each district was given a relative score between 1 and 0 (1 = worst, 0 = best) based on: A) the NUMBER of children who are inactive and; B) the PERCENTAGE of children who are inactive. An average of scores A & B was taken, and converted to a relative score between 1 and 0 (1= worst, 0 = best). The closer to 1 the score, the greater both the number and percentage of children who are inactive within that district, compared to other districts. In other words, those are areas where a large number of children are inactive, and where those children make up a large percentage of the childhood population, indicating there is a real issue with childhood inactivity within the population and the investment of resources to address this issue could have the greatest benefits. DATA SOURCES Active Lives Survey 2019: Sport and Physical Activity Levels amongst children and young people in school years 1-11 (aged 5-16). © Sport England 2020. Administrative boundaries: Boundary-LineTM: Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. COPYRIGHT NOTICE Based on data © Sport England 2020. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data analysed and published by Ribble Rivers Trust © 2021. CaBA HEALTH & WELLBEING EVIDENCE BASE This dataset forms part of the wider CaBA Health and Wellbeing Evidence Base.