Greater Manchester Activity Levels May 20-21: Gender
A detailed breakdown of the latest Active Lives research from Sport England exploring the differences in activity levels by gender across Greater Manchester.
The gap between male and female inactivity in Greater Manchester is 2.3% and has reduced by 0.8% since November 2015/16 (baseline). However, the narrowing of the gap is a result of increases in inactivity amongst both men and women with men's inactivity rising faster than women's (+2.3% v. +1.5%).
Borough Comparison
Greater Manchester has a gender inactivity gap over twice the national gap, 2.3% compared to 1.0%. There are just three boroughs, Bolton, Manchester, and Oldham, that have smaller gender gaps than seen nationally. Since baseline four of the boroughs, Salford, Stockport, Trafford, and Wigan, have seen the gender gap increase.
If you want to find out more about engaging women in physical activity take a look at Women in Sport’s website. Find out more about the relationship between gender and physical activity here.
More information on the latest Active Lives release can be found here.
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All data is rounded to one decimal point, you can access the raw data here.