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<p>Sport England collects data on the number of people aged 16+ who engage in sport
and physical activity in England through the Active Lives Survey. The latest data
is available online (covering the period May 2017 to May 2018): <a href="https://www.sportengland.org/media/13563/active-lives-adult-may-17-18-report.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/media/13563/active-lives-adult-may-17-18-report.pdf</a></p><p>
</p><p>The table below details Active Lives Survey data on the number of women that
have played football regularly in each year since 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Active Lives
Survey – women (16+) playing football twice per month:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>Active Lives Year 1 data (covering the Nov 15 - Nov 16 period)</p></td><td><p>Active
Lives 18 month interim data (May 16 - May 17)</p></td><td><p>Active Lives Year 2 data
(Nov 16 - Nov 17)</p></td><td><p>Active Lives 30 month interim data (May 17 - May
18)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Whole population</p></td><td><p>2,299,000 (5.2% of English
16+ population)</p></td><td><p>2,299,700 (5.1%)</p></td><td><p>2,222,100 (5.0%)</p></td><td><p>2,095,900
(4.7%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>215,100 (0.9%)</p></td><td><p>212,300
(0.9%)</p></td><td><p>196,200 (0.9%)</p></td><td><p>187,600 (0.8%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>The Active Lives Survey replaced the Active People Survey which collected data
from the period of October 2005 to September 2016. Archived data from the Active People
Survey is available online: <a href="https://www.sportengland.org/research/about-our-research/active-people-survey/"
target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/research/about-our-research/active-people-survey/</a>.
Owing to the different methodologies employed, the data sets from the two surveys
are not directly comparable.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>
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