An Overview - Sport New Zealand

THE VALUE OF SPORT
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Appendix:
Key Facts and Estimates
The study has produced four major headline results, all of which have been
conservatively estimated:
• The contribution of the sport and recreation sector (narrowly defined) to
GDP in 2008/09 is estimated to have been $3.8 billion, or 2.1 per cent.
• The contribution of the sport and recreation sector (broadly defined) to
GDP in 2008/09 is estimated to have been $4.5 billion, or 2.4 per cent.
• The contribution of sport and recreation to GDP including volunteered
services in 2008/09 is estimated to have been $5.2 billion, or 2.8 per cent.
• The total value of sport and recreation to New Zealanders in 2008/09 is
estimated to have been at least $12.2 billion when the opportunity cost
of time is included.
Each chapter in the full report produced its own set of key facts and
estimates. These are reproduced here under their chapter headings that
make up ‘the six Ps of valuing sport and recreation’. The full report can be
downloaded from SPARC’s website.
Chapter 2: Participation in Sport and
Recreation in New Zealand
• 92 per cent of young people surveyed by the Sport and Physical Activity
Surveys in 1997, 1998 and 2000 had taken part in one or more sports or
physical activities during the previous two weeks.
• 51 per cent of secondary school students were recorded in the NZSSSC
census as having a meaningful involvement with a school sports
programme in 2010.
• Young people reported in the 2008/09 National Survey of Children and
Young People’s Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviours that they spent on
average 29 minutes per day (203 minutes per week) in organised sport.
• 96 per cent of adults reported in the 2007/08 Active New Zealand
Survey that they had taken part in one or more sport and recreation
activities over the previous 12 months. If walking and gardening are
excluded, the percentage is still at 83 per cent.
• Adults reported in the 2007/08 Active New Zealand Survey that they
spent on average 149 minutes per week on sport and recreation activities.
• 25 per cent of adults reported in the 2007/08 Active New Zealand
Survey that they had volunteered their time for one or more sport and
recreation activities.
• Analysis for SPARC estimates that over the course of a full year,
volunteers contribute 51.3 million hours to sport and recreation.