Wales: people participating in outdoors activities 2019, by activity and age

Published by David Lange, Nov 19, 2020

The most popular outdoor activity in Wales is walking. In 2019, approximately 78 percent of the female and 76 percent of the male respondents in a nationally representative survey advised that they went walking as an outdoors activity at least once in the past four weeks. Second in popularity was visiting children's playground with 27 percent of women and 23 percent of men participating in the activity once monthly.
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Share of people who participated in outdoors activities during the last 4 weeks in Wales in 2019, by activity and age group

	16-44	45-64	65+
Walking	76%	78%	78%
Visiting children's playgrounds / taking children to play area outdoors	35%	19%	12%
Picnicking (as a significant part of the activity)	17%	16%	7%
Wildlife watching	13%	18%	18%
Running	23%	10%	-
Informal games (e.g. frisbee or golf)	18%	12%	8%
None of these	8%	12%	14%
Road cycling	10%	12%	5%
Swimming outdoors	5%	3%	-
Horse riding	3%	2%	-
Off-road cycling or mountain biking	6%	5%	-

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Release date

June 2019

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Region

United Kingdom (Wales)

Survey time period

March 2018 to March 2019.

Number of respondents

4,650 respondents

Age group

16 years and older

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview

Supplementary notes

Respondents were asked: "Which of the following activities have you undertaken at least once during visits to the outdoors in the last 4 weeks?"

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