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- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-93091-2
- Pages
- 43 –57
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-93092-9_4
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[This paper presents the importance of monitoring participation in sports and physical activities in a country and, in a coordinated way, in different countries. As the regular practice of a sport or of a physical activity brings physical, psychological, and social benefits for the citizens’ quality of life, the governments should support policies to improve such participation and evaluate their results through appropriate researches and investigations. The paper is divided in two parts: The first section deals with the problems researchers face when they have to standardize definitions, to plan a questionnaire and a survey strategy, and to produce comparable indicators. After a short history of research on sport participation, the most recent studies are discussed with respect to the goals, methodologies, and results, with particular attention paid to those that can be used to monitor citizens’ quality of life. In the second part, data from Eurobarometer 472 (December 2017) are processed in an original way to present trends, including their main determinants, of participation in sports and physical activities in the European Union countries.]
Published: Apr 20, 2022