This report provides more comprehensive results from the 2011 Young People’s Survey than the initial report – Sport and Recreation in the Lives of Young New Zealanders.
It includes results for all questions, results by a broader range of student characteristics and the reporting of statistically significant differences.
Given the overall size of the report, individual sections of the report are downloadable. Each section has its own table of contents.
Section 1 provides a general overview of report content.
Section 2 onwards of this report should be read alongside the ‘How to Read this Report’ document.
Purpose
This report provides more comprehensive results from the 2011 Young People’s Survey than the initial report – Sport and Recreation in the Lives of Young New Zealanders. This report includes:
- presenting results for all questions in the student survey forms
- presenting results for a broader range of demographic/other student characteristics (eg. by students attending low-, medium- and high-decile schools)
- providing confidence intervals for all results presented and reporting statistically significant differences.
Methodology
The Young People’s Survey is a school-based survey which took place in the first half of Term 3 (August/early September) 2011. Schools were chosen at random – primary, intermediate and secondary – from all across the country. This gives Sport NZ information from a nationally representative cross-section of boys and girls aged from 5 to 18 years (a small number of 4-year-olds and 19-year-olds took part in the survey but, for ease of reading, we refer to 5 to 18-year-olds in this report). Some types of schools were not included in the survey for practical reasons. Appendix 1 has more information about how the survey was designed and carried out.
More than 500 schools (505) took part in the survey in 2011. Over 8 out of 10 (81.7%) schools that were asked to take part did so. At each school, one or more classes were chosen at random and the students in those classes were asked if they would take part in the survey. Parents/caregivers of Years 1 and 2 students were asked to complete the survey form on behalf of, and alongside, their children. The survey was voluntary and all answers were anonymous. Over 7 out of 10 (75.0%) students/parents selected for the survey took part. Along with the school response rate, this gives an overall response rate for the survey of 61.3%.
As not all schools and students (or their parents/caregivers) chosen for the survey took part, some groups (based on age, gender and ethnicity) are under- or over-represented in the survey responses. To account for this, the responses are adjusted, or weighted, using information about students’ characteristics from the Ministry of Education’s school roll. This adjustment means that the figures in the report are representative of all the students from the types of school included in the survey. Appendix 1 explains this process further, and Table 1.1 (next page) shows the number and characteristics of the young people who were interviewed and the number of survey participants when weighted.
Readers should note that the analysis contained in this report does not include the students attending Christchurch schools (impacted by the Canterbury earthquakes) who did not take part in the survey until 2012 (n=961). The updated YPS methodology report shows that including these students in the sample had no impact on the national results.