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By GreaterSport | 02 July 2021 | TAGS: Active Lives, Covid-19, Research, Inequalities, Research and learning, Adults, Greater Manchester, Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, Older adults

Sport England released the latest active lives survey results on the 29th April that showed the impact of Covid-19 on physical activity.

The initial findings showed that in the period between November 2019 and November 2020, 68.9% of adults in Greater Manchester were moving for more than 30 minutes a week (Sport England’s Active and Fairly Active measures). This is a significant decrease with 98,000 less adults doing more than 30 minutes of physical activity a week from the survey 12 months ago and 19,000 less than when the survey began in 2015-16.

We’ve now had more localised data through from Sport England and the team have pulled together the following pages to help explain the Greater Manchester data.

  • Greater Manchester overview - here
  • Gender - here
  • Age - here
  • Ethnicity - here
  • Socio-economic status - here
  • Disability - here

There is also a page designated to each local authority; Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.

This short video clip narrates the impact of covid-19 on activity levels in Greater Manchester.

If you have questions about any of the data please email: [email protected].

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