Active Lives Survey, 2018-2019

<p>The <span style="font-style: italic;">Active Lives Survey</span> (ALS) commenced in November 2015. It replaces the Active People Survey, which ran from 2005 to 2015. The survey provides the largest sample size ever established for a sport and recreation survey and allows levels of detailed analysis previously unavailable. It identifies how participation varies from place to place, across different sports, and between different groups in the population. The survey also measures levels of activity (active, fairly active and inactive), the proportion of the adult population that volunteer in sports on a weekly basis, club membership, sports spectating and wellbeing measures such as happiness and anxiety, etc. The questionnaire was designed to enable analysis of the findings by a broad range of demographic information, such as gender, social class, ethnicity, household structure, age, and disability.</p><p>The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic developed rapidly during 2020 and 2021. Fieldwork for the Active Lives survey continued throughout the pandemic, which covered periods Nov 2019-20 and Nov 2020-21. The data from Nov 2021-22 onwards covers periods without any coronavirus restrictions. </p><p>More general information about the study can be found on the Sport England <a href="https://www.sportengland.org/research/active-lives-survey/">Active Lives Survey</a> webpage and the <a href="https://activelives.sportengland.org/">Active Lives Online</a> website, including reports and data tables.</p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Data Formats</span><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br></span>Users should note that the Active Lives data are deposited in SPSS format. The UKDS also provides the data in Stata and tab-delimited formats, but due to the differing nature of the SPSS and Stata software packages and the structure of the Active Lives data, Stata users may experience some issues with labels or variable formats. We therefore recommend that users analyse the data in SPSS where possible.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Latest version</span></p><p>For the fourth edition (February 2025), the data file was resupplied, with an updated County Sports Partnership variable (CSP_2025), an updated inequalities metric variable (equalities_metric_2024_GR4), and new cultural activities variables (library visits, arts participation/visits, frequency) included.</p>

《活力生活调查》（Active Lives Survey，ALS）于2015年11月启动，其替代了2005年至2015年运行的《活力人群调查》（Active People Survey）。该调查拥有体育与休闲类调查迄今最大的样本量，可开展此前无法实现的精细化分析，能够揭示不同地区、不同体育项目以及不同人口群体间的参与度差异。调查同时会测量活动水平（分为活跃、较活跃与不活跃三类）、每周参与体育志愿活动的成年人口比例、俱乐部会员情况、体育观赛行为，以及幸福感、焦虑感等福祉相关指标。问卷设计可基于性别、社会阶层、族裔、家庭结构、年龄与残疾状况等多类人口统计学信息开展结果分析。
2020至2021年，新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）疫情快速蔓延。活力生活调查的实地调研在疫情期间持续开展，覆盖2019年11月—2020年及2020年11月—2021年两个调研周期。2021年11月及之后的数据则对应无任何新冠防疫限制的时期。
有关该研究的更多通用信息，可参阅英格兰体育（Sport England）的《活力生活调查》官网页面（https://www.sportengland.org/research/active-lives-survey/）及《活力生活在线》（Active Lives Online）平台（https://activelives.sportengland.org/），其中包含研究报告与数据表格。
**数据格式**
用户须知：活力生活调查数据以SPSS（Statistical Product and Service Solutions，统计产品与服务解决方案）格式存档。英国数据服务中心（UKDS）同时提供Stata格式与制表符分隔格式的数据，但由于SPSS与Stata软件的特性差异，以及活力生活调查数据的结构特点，Stata用户可能在变量标签或变量格式方面遇到问题。因此我们建议用户尽可能采用SPSS进行数据分析。
**最新版本**
2025年2月发布的第四版数据文件已重新提供，新增了更新后的县域体育合作项目变量（CSP_2025）、不平等性衡量变量（equalities_metric_2024_GR4），以及全新的文化活动相关变量（包括图书馆到访情况、艺术参与/观览情况及相关频率）。