Foresight: Active Leisure Participation (1992

Matt Hurst, Statistics Canada, reports that between 1992 and 2005, the participation rate in active leisure rose while the time spend doing these activities remained the same. His summary of results follows:

Participation in exercise, as well as walking and jogging, grew from 1992 to 2005
Although sports participation remained about the same in 1992 and 2005, people were slightly more likely to go swimming (possibly due to the hotter summer in 2005). Also, Canadians are moving away from organized sports to informal sports activity in their leisure time
Groups more likely to participated in active leisure while holding other factors constant were: women, university-educated people, married people, thosewith incomes of $60,000 and over, those who reported their lives had a relatively low level of time stress, and those living in British Columbia or Quebec.