Sport statistics
Official Statistics consultation
If you use any of the Culture, arts, heritage, sport and language statistics publications on our website Analytics Division within the Department for Communities NI (DfC) are interested in your views. We are reaching out to users to better understand how the statistics are being used, whether the range and type of outputs meet user needs, and to highlight where improvements can be made.
To gauge your opinions on these publications, it would be greatly appreciated if you could take a few minutes to complete the following consultation:
This consultation will be open from Friday 27 June to Thursday 24 July 2025.
Headline statistics
Headline figures for engagement in culture, arts, heritage and sport are produced in summer in advance of further detailed reports with demographic breakdown being published in autumn/winter. Engagement figures for young people are produced triennially.
Wellbeing
Experience of sport in Northern Ireland
This series of publications provides information on adults and young peoples’ experience of sport and physical activity.
Ad hoc sport research
- A New Sport and Physical Activity Strategy for NI Consultation 2021
- The impact of sporting activity on emotional wellbeing 2015
- Sports volunteering by adults in Northern Ireland 2012/13
- Impact of poverty on engagement in sport in Northern Ireland
- Attendance at live sports events by adults in Northern Ireland 2011/12