 So we have Doug Warren from Ipsos and he lives here as a member of the Active Lives Survey. We just have to find yours. There we go. And Doug is an Associate Director in Public Affairs Team at Ipsos. He directs the Active Lives Survey on behalf of Sports England and has worked in it since 2016 and he also works on a number of other large health studies that we do. Today I'm going to be talking about the Active Lives Surveys of adults and children and young people and I'm going to be covering a little bit about how the surveys work, what data they collect and how you can get your hands on that data should you wish to. So the Active Lives Surveys, which carried out by Ipsos on behalf of Sports England, they capture a unique and comprehensive view of how many people in England are active, how they're active, what particular things they do. They are two separate surveys, one of adults aged 16 plus and one of children and young people. The survey of adults was set up first. It was a successor for the Active People Survey, which ran from 2006. That used a telephone approach and it was a landline only sample. So Sports England recognized that with the growth of mobile-only households it represented a risk to the survey of the sample becoming less representative over time and we could actually see that happening. As such they needed to review the methodology they were using to collect their data. That review led to the establishment of the Active Lives Survey as a replacement for active people using a push-to-web approach. Now recognizing that that change would mean a break in the continuity of their data Sports England wanted to take advantage of that to think about the surveys more generally, the data they were collecting. Alongside that their remit had expanded to also be responsible for the activity levels of children and young people from the ages of five upwards. So they knew they needed to start collecting data among those age groups. As such they commissioned it to carry out an evidence review to look at the feasibility of collecting data among children as young as five. That led to the world-leading survey of children and young people which is the first study of its kind to collect activity data on a large scale among children from five upwards. So both surveys are cross-sectional in design. They're designed to provide a robust sample of data which can be analyzed down to local authority level. So we're aiming to achieve around 500 interviews per local authority for the adult survey and around 300 per local authority in the child and young person survey. Now the data is collected year-round because obviously what we're looking at is not just overall activity levels but participation in specific sports. Therefore we don't want to bias our data by having a kind of a single point in time. We need to make sure that we're accounting for seasonality of participation and activity. For the adult survey what that means in practice is monthly fieldwork that we're sending out invitations to people. On the child survey that's termally fieldwork across the academic year. The adult survey used to push to web design whereby we're sampling households from the Royal Mail's postcode address file so it provides a comprehensive list of households within England. We're then using push to web design to invite people to participate in an online survey with a paid questionnaire being sent out within the third mailing for non-respondents should they wish to complete with that method. The survey of children and young people using in-school approach. Schools are recruited by active partnerships so we take a sample of 10 junior and 10 secondary schools per local authority within school year and a selection of year groups are chosen for each school and their participation is assigned randomly to a term so that we keep up that kind of random selection of participation. Sorry, very dry mouth. In terms of the questionnaires then for the adult survey we have an online survey and a paper questionnaire. The paper questionnaire is slightly simplified compared to the online survey with simply constraints of space and sophistication of routing. Sorry, that probably sounds horrendous with a microphone. The child and young person survey uses four questionnaires essentially. For children in years one and two they have a very simple questionnaire which is just primarily looking at their attitudes towards sports and activity and their well-being. For children in years three to eleven they have a single questionnaire with some variation by year group. The children in years one to two we also send a questionnaire to their parents to collect a more accurate assessment of their activity levels. Finally we also select one teacher within the school and they don't select them, the school selects them and they're provided with a questionnaire which looks at the school's provision of PE, healthy eating and things such as that. So the surveys capture data across a wide range of measures and there is variance across the two surveys but they are broadly consistent in the types of data we're collecting. And foremost the active live surveys gives a headline measure of the proportion of people who are meeting the CMO guidelines for activity within England and there are separate guidelines for adults and children and young people for adults. It's 150 plus minutes of moderate equivalent activity per week for children and young people it's an average of 60 minutes per day across the week and so we're looking at how we can capture that data in each of those surveys. Alongside that we capture a wide range of activity data I'm going to come on to that in a bit more in the next slide. We also capture well-being metrics using the standard ONS well-being measures along with loneliness and social community cohesion. Okay, I better race on. And they also capture people's attitudes towards sport and activity adult survey that's using the standard sort of attitudinal things of capability, opportunity, motivation to kind of lead to this sort of behavioral picture. For the child and young person survey it looks at the four factors for elements of physical literacy. So motivation, confidence, competence and knowledge. The surveys are designed so this is an image of the postal questionnaire. It does look better online where it's designed to be a sort of device agnostic questionnaire. The surveys are designed to capture data at individual activity levels so people are shown a list of activities that they may have done in the last year. For those they've completed in the last year they're then asked have you done them in the last 28 days? If you've done them in the last 28 days you're then asked okay how many sessions? How long was your average session? How intense were your sessions? On the online survey we then are able to capture a bit more information about settings and things such as that. But what it means is we're capturing data at a very granular level for specific activities. To create our headline metrics then we're just aggregating them across all the activities people do to give hopefully the most accurate picture that we can. We're building a picture then not just of how active people are but how they're being active where and who with. And that allows Sport England and the National Governing Bodies who they partner with to understand the participation levels of sport over time and seasonally. As I said earlier both surveys are designed to allow analysis at local authority level so it means we do have a lot of data at small geographic levels. We're not just producing all England level. It also means we have geographic level statistics like morality and deprivation. We're able to analyze the data in a robust way for those. Both surveys also contain a range of demographic questions. That helps Sport England to meet one of its core strategic objectives of understanding activity within a place and a person based context. We're looking at things then like age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability and health as well as working status, educational attainment and socioeconomic classification. And it enables us to understand inequalities across demographic groups and those insights have fed into Sport England's strategy leading to campaigns such as this girl can and we are undefeatable. Now I should say we don't publish all of the demographic data on the data archive but it can be accessed at request potentially from Sport England. The surveys have both been running quite a long time now. The adult surveys have been running since November 2015 so we do have a lot of data. Both surveys were able to continue throughout the pandemic because of the methodology we're using. It was uninterrupted and it means we have a picture of how activity levels were changed throughout the pandemic. So for example we could see that the types of activities people were doing were changing radically. Things like active travel obviously fell off a cliff because people were no longer commuting but also team sports or anything that would be affected by the rule of six all fell off and there was a replacement so things like park run went up massively. But over the longer term what we've seen is that while activity levels for England have bounced back slightly inequalities have in some instances been entrenched. So for example area level deprivation those from most deprived areas are struggling to recover their activity levels. I'm going to skip this slide because I don't think I have time but what I will say is if you do want to find out more the data is archived annually through the UK data service that includes data files technical reports, code books, user guides all the things you would normally expect to see. Annual reports are published on Sport England's websites those include data tables. They also produce spotlight reports to look at topics of particular interest and have produced an analysis tool which is available on that website which allows you to do simple cross tabulations producing maps of area level statistics.