Sports participation in Denmark 2011

This report presents the general results of the study ‘Sports participation in Denmark 2011’ (Danish:
‘Danskernes motions- og sportsvaner 2011′). The data is presented in tables and figures supplemented with further statistical analysis, but the discussion of these findings does not have a particular focus on the political implications of the results. The questionnaire, analytical methods and general results have been discussed and agreed upon among the study’s stakeholders. Since the first study on the subject in 1964, the sports participation rate in Danmark has been on a constant rise. In this study, with data collected in the autumn of 2011, 86 per cent of children (aged 7 to 15) and 64 per cent of adults answered yes to doing sport or exercising.