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Are you female and living in Southwark? Do you find it hard to lead an active life? Then we want to hear from you. By completing the short survey (which will only take 10 minutes) at the bottom of the page you can opt to be entered into a prize draw to win an Apple iPad mini 2. Why are we doing this survey? In Southwark, there is a big difference between men?s and women?s levels of physical activity (like walking, running and going to the gym). Only 22% of women are active, compared to 46% of men in the borough. Southwark Council and London Sport are working together to tackle these differences, because they believe that leading a more active life, means a happier and healthier community. This survey is a start towards understanding how to address these issues. That?s why your opinion really matters to us. We need to hear from women like you in Southwark, to better understand what?s going on, so that organisations in the borough can improve their services to you, your female friends and family. Thank you, London Sport Insight Team https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/YBZWYX2

Are you female and living in Southwark? Do you find it hard to lead an active life? Then we want to hear from you. By completing the short survey (which will only take 10 minutes) at the bottom of the page you can opt to be entered into a prize draw to win an Apple iPad mini 2. Why are we doing this survey? In Southwark, there is a big difference between men?s and women?s levels of physical activity (like walking, running and going to the gym). Only 22% of women are active, compared to 46% of men in the borough. Southwark Council and London Sport are working together to tackle these differences, because they believe that leading a more active life, means a happier and healthier community. This survey is a start towards understanding how to address these issues. That?s why your opinion really matters to us. We need to hear from women like you in Southwark, to better understand what?s going on, so that organisations in the borough can improve their services to you, your female friends and family. Thank you, London Sport Insight Team https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/YBZWYX2

Hi there, Thank you for engaging with the post! I think a lot of the points that you raise are very valid in terms of the boundaries between being active and exercising. The statistics quoted come from Sport England and there research into participation within exercise in the UK. The quoted figures specifically relate to the question - have you participated in sport once within the last week. The quoted statistics relate to all women as we don't have the ability to segment according to lifestyle etc. I quote agree with you with regards to the fact that if someone answers no to the above question that it doesn't mean that they are leading an unhealthy inactive lifestyle - the trouble is that when trying to create a standardised model for asking questions on survey there has to be a way to split out groups so in this case as Sport England are specifically looking at participation rates within sport then the question is directly related. I think honestly the text that I chose is a bit misleading - I should have been specific as it relates to sport participation as opposed to level of inactivity. If you want to find out more about levels of sports participation, please see the below link to the Sport England Active people survey. Again - thanks for the engagement with the survey. If you have any further questions, do let me know. Thank you, Matt @ London Sport http://bit.ly/2bkiw4J - Sport England Active people survey link

Hi there, Firstly who are London Sport! London Sport are a non-for-profit organisation that seeks to support London in becoming the most active city in the World. Working with partners such as the GLA and Sport England, London Sport supports the development of participation in physical activity through engaging key community groups who deliver sport in the boroughs of London. Further to this, we work with local authorities to understand the requirements of their communities when it comes to physical activity as per this example with Southwark Council. We are working with Southwark to understand the low participation rate among women in the borough and supporting them in developing delivery options to improve activity rates. If you want to find out more about London Sport - the website here is linked below... https://londonsport.org/ The stat that you mention is actually a Sport England statistic that comes from their Active People survey which you can find in more detail just below should you wish to interrogate the data. Appreciate that it is a significant difference between men and women but the survey is statistically robust and forms a key part of the insight structure that goes towards implement sport delivery in the UK. In terms of the actual question that the stat supports it is - have you participated in sport at least once in the last week. I have listed below options for more insight should you be interested. I hope that answers your questions but do feel free to ask anything that you feel that I haven't answered. http://bit.ly/2bkiw4J - Sport England Active People statistics http://data.londonsport.org/ - London Sport insight portal Thanks, Matt @ London Sport

Thanks for your notes. Sorry I haven't had chance to feedback as of yet. I will get back to you very soon though. Thanks, Matt @ London Sport

Hi, Thank you for the suggestion - it is a very good one. I completely take on-board your point and will amend accordingly. Thank you once again, Matt @ London Sport

Are you female and living in Southwark? Do you find it hard to lead an active life? Then we want to hear from you. By completing the short survey (which will only take 10 minutes) at the bottom of the page you can opt to be entered into a prize draw to win an Apple iPad mini 2. Why are we doing this survey? In Southwark, there is a big difference between men?s and women?s levels of physical activity (like walking, running and going to the gym). Only 22% of women are active, compared to 46% of men in the borough. Southwark Council and London Sport are working together to tackle these differences, because they believe that leading a more active life, means a happier and healthier community. This survey is a start towards understanding how to address these issues. That?s why your opinion really matters to us. We need to hear from women like you in Southwark, to better understand what?s going on, so that organisations in the borough can improve their services to you, your female friends and family. Thank you, London Sport Insight Team https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/YBZWYX2

Are you female and living in Southwark? Do you find it hard to lead an active life? Then we want to hear from you. By completing the short survey (which will only take 10 minutes) at the bottom of the page you can opt to be entered into a prize draw to win an Apple iPad mini 2. Why are we doing this survey? In Southwark, there is a big difference between men?s and women?s levels of physical activity (like walking, running and going to the gym). Only 22% of women are active, compared to 46% of men in the borough. Southwark Council and London Sport are working together to tackle these differences, because they believe that leading a more active life, means a happier and healthier community. This survey is a start towards understanding how to address these issues. That?s why your opinion really matters to us. We need to hear from women like you in Southwark, to better understand what?s going on, so that organisations in the borough can improve their services to you, your female friends and family. Thank you, London Sport Insight Team https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/YBZWYX2

Are you female and living in Southwark? Do you find it hard to lead an active life? Then we want to hear from you. By completing the short survey (which will only take 10 minutes) at the bottom of the page you can opt to be entered into a prize draw to win an Apple iPad mini 2. Why are we doing this survey? In Southwark, there is a big difference between men?s and women?s levels of physical activity (like walking, running and going to the gym). Only 22% of women are active, compared to 46% of men in the borough. Southwark Council and London Sport are working together to tackle these differences, because they believe that leading a more active life, means a happier and healthier community. This survey is a start towards understanding how to address these issues. That?s why your opinion really matters to us. We need to hear from women like you in Southwark, to better understand what?s going on, so that organisations in the borough can improve their services to you, your female friends and family. Thank you, London Sport Insight Team https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/YBZWYX2