Analysis of the Determinants of Sports Participation in Spain and England. Statistical, Economic Analysis and Policy Conclusions

Themis Kokolakakis (), Fernando Lera Lopez () and Thanos Panagouleas ()
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Themis Kokolakakis: Sport Industry Research Centre - Sheffield Hallam University

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Abstract: This paper investigates the role of socio-demographic characteristics, educational and economic variables on sports participation in a comparative way in two European countries: Spain and England. Adopting a broad concept of sport, as in the common European approach, we analyze the determinants of sports participation in forty different professional and non-professional sports and recreational activities in both countries. The research involves a comparative analysis between the data of England and Spain based on two Logistic regressions. The regression equation of every country tests the effect of 17 binary explanatory variables on a dependent binary variable for participation. Higher education level, professional occupation, younger age and being male are all factors associated with more sports participation. Although there is no difference in the direction of the factor effects on participation between England and Spain, there is considerable variation in their relative strength, which has sport policy implications in the two nations.

Keywords: Social; Sciences; &; Humanities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06-20
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Published in Applied Economics, 2011, pp.1. ⟨10.1080/00036846.2011.566204⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.566204

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