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Indicators > Indicator IH1: Recreational facilities
| Definition |
Access to recreational facilities per capita |
| Dimension |
Intervening factors |
| Sector |
Healthy areas (intermediate) |
| Components |
- IH1_1 Access to recreational facilities per capita
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| Source Numerator |
2001, 2001 Ethnic, 2003: Sport England Sports Gateway Facility Finder, data as at
March 2003 - http://www.sportengland.org/ |
| Source Denominator |
2001, 2001 Ethnic 2003: Mid year population estimate 2001, ONS |
Additional details
The Sport England website features a sports facility finder tool,
the Sports Gateway, which provides details of over 4,000 public
access sporting facilities in England. Facilities of interest
include indoor sports centres, athletic tracks, Astroturf pitches,
swimming pools and tennis centres. Permission was given by Sport
England to use the underlying data set. This included a postcode for
each facility which could be linked to grid references and
mapped.
GIS software was then used to perform triangulation and create
Voronoi polygons for each facility. These catchment areas allowed a
measure of access to be created which was dependent on the size of
the population each facility served. The resultant figure was
weighted by the district population and scores aggregated to Local
Authority District.
For ethnic estimation, an SOA level weighting function was created to model access for individuals in ethnic groups within Local Authorities.
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