Purpose
Our Active NZ survey samples New Zealanders registered on the electoral roll every month through our research partner, Nielsen. However, when New Zealand was placed in Alert Level 4 during March and April 2020 and restrictions were imposed due to COVID-19 , Sport NZ was not deemed an essential service, therefore we were unable to post any invitations to participate in the survey. This meant we had to survey in a different way.
Methodology
We surveyed previous Active NZ* respondents, who had given permission to be re-contacted. We compare September 2020 data with both the April and June 2020 re-contact surveys. Further, we compare September 2020 data with interviews completed via the Active NZ survey in September 2017, 2018 and 2019 combined. All datasets were weighted to the 2013 census, to ensure national representativeness.
Key Results
From September 2020 Report:
Continued recovery of weekly participation and time spent being physically active from June to September, but we are not back to normal
- There is an unevenness to recovery – the following are all significantly below results for a normal September:
- Time spent by adults being physically active
- Time spent in organised sport for tamariki and rangatahi
- Time spent by 15-17 year olds being physically active
- Auckland was impacted by Alert Level 3 in August, with indicators showing an impact on how sports recover