How active do we want to be?
Young people
- Close to three in five or 62% of our young people are interested in participating in a new sport or active leisure activity. Teenagers show less interest in doing new sports or active leisure; in particular those aged 16-17 years old (50%).
- Young Māori (66%), particularly boys (68%), show the most interest in taking up a new sport or active leisure. Pacific girls also show the most interest (69%) when compared to girls from other ethnic groups (around 62%)
Adults
- Among adults, 57% would like to spend more time taking part in sport and active leisure. Men and women are equally interested in being more active but as people get older, levels of interest in being more active decreases to 32% for those adults aged 65 years or over (66% are happy with their current level of activity).
- Those adults aged 65 years or over are less likely to want to be more active in 2000/01 when compared to 1997/98 (29% and 35% respectively). This is also true for European adults (55% and 58% respectively). On the other hand, more adults from other ethnic groups in 2000/01 want to be more active than they did in 1997/98 (68% to 58%).