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Active Lives Survey - Demographics

Description

Monitoring inactivity levels over time is critical to understanding progress and benchmarking performance. However, the real insight comes from drilling down into the data and understanding how activity rates differ across different demographic characteristics. This dataset relates to information extrapolated from the November 2019-2020 Active Lives release and the figures in the table show inactivity levels in the Black Country for each demographic group listed.

Inactivity is defined as achieving less than 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week.


DemographicsBlack Country Inactivity Rate
All People36.4%
Identify as Male37%
Identify as Female36.1%
Aged 16 - 3431.6%
Aged 35 - 5435.2%
Aged 55 - 7436.6%
Aged 75+56%
White British35.8%
Asian (excluding Chinese)38.7%
NS SEC 1-227.8%
NS SEC 3-532%
NS SEC 6-840.6%
Disability or Long-Term Health Condition50.8%
No Disability or Long-Term Health Condition32.1%
Employed30.7%
Unemployed40%
Retired45.6%


Commentary

Please note, no data was available at Black Country level for people who identify their gender as something other than male or female. Similarly, the sample only allowed for analysis of white and Asian (excluding Chinese) respondents. Whilst other ethnic groups were surveyed, they weren’t sufficiently represented in the sample to allow for accurate statistics to be available.