Talk:Sport in Belfast

59% of adults
The article specifying that 59% of adults participate in sport, later refers to walking as sport. Is the word "sport" in Ireland the same as the word "exercise" in the US? —BozoTheScary 22:46, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * 1. To answer your general question, official bodies in Europe, including the Sports Council of Northern Ireland (which supplied the statistic), generally use the Council of Europe Definition of Sport. The Council of Europe defines sport as 'all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim at expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well-being, forming social relationships or obtaining results in competition at all levels.'Whether walking is included on this definition must depend on how you are doing it. Presumably if you are walking alone and with the intention of being morose and/or remaining unfit then you are not engaging in sport. If you're trying to make friends or run around with the dog, you're a sportsperson. I would not describe this as the ordinary conversational use of the word 'sport' on the eastern side of the pond, though it is used by administrators. Personally I think that this use of the word 'sport' is broader than most Europeans realise and I think it is worth glossing statistics or quotes from official European bodies with the phrase 'sport and other physical activity'.


 * 2. To come to the specific point of the use of the statistic in this article, it is comparatively unhelpful because a) the scope of 'sport' is not defined and b) it's very old ('96-'99). It is also misused in the text because the statistic refers to Northern ireland and not to Belfast.
 * The Continuous Household Survey, the Northern Ireland equivalent to the GHS used in the rest of the UK, has published more recent figures. To use the CHS data for 1999/2000, the statistic was 64% had taken exercise (including walking) in the last four weeks, and 42% had taken exercise in the last four weeks if you don't include walking.
 * Though this statistic is not ideal, it could be paraphrased into a sentence.
 * In Northern Ireland as a whole, 64% of the population take part in sport or other exercise (including walking).
 * with a reference to Continuous Household Survey, '11.1 Sport or any physical activity, including walking, during the last 4 weeks by sex and age, 1999-00', http://www.csu.nisra.gov.uk/archive/Surveys/CHS/Results/11_Sport%20and%20Leisure/Sport_including_walking_by_age_and_sex.xls
 * - Happydemic 10:09, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

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