The purposes of this study were to categorize sport activities and to evaluate the possible association between those types and adults′ socio-economic characteristics. In order to describe them, the authors utilized the binary logistic regression model to analyze a “Questionnaire regarding S-city Residents′ Sport Participation and Environment.”
The findings in this study can be summarized as follows:
1) Sport activities investigated in this survey were classified into 10 types: Pool Exercise (PE) ; Indoor Exercise (IE) ; Road Exercise (RE) ; Space Free Exercise (SFE) ; Indoor Sport (IS) ; Field Sport (FS) ; Summer Leisure (SL) ; Winter Leisure (WL) ; Golf (G) ; and Park-golf (PG) , depending mainly on factors of facility and human resource requirements.
As a result of statistical analysis, 2) it was clarified that people do RE and SFE at least once per year, independently of their socio-economic characteristics (RE:χ2=25.682, Nglk. R2=0.072; SFE:χ 2=34.999, Nglk.R2=0.109) . On the contrary, 3) as for IS, FS, WL, and G, several independent valuables have definite interpretability (IS:χ 2=41.761, Nglk.R2=0.191; FS:χ 2=63.077, Nglk.R2=0.267; WL:χ 2=76.953, Nglk.R2=0.276; G:χ 2=90.428, Nglk.R2=0.278) . Participations in those types were mainly influenced by annual-income (Standard: less than 3 million yen. IS 3-5.9 million yen: OR=2.510, 95%CI=1.060-5.944; FS 3-5.9 million yen: OR=2.701, 95%CI=1.121-6.508; WL 3-5.9 million yen: OR=4.115, 95%CI=1.862-9.091; WL over 6 million yen: OR=4.098, 95%CI=1.440-11.663; G over 6 million yen: OR=3.373, 95%CI=1.368-8.320) ; and sport experience throughout the person′s high school and college days (Standard: no experience. IS: OR=2.762, 95%CI=1.035-7.372; FS: OR=3.904, 95%CI=1.516-10.054; G: OR=3.292, 95%CI=1.395-7.767) . The above results can be understood from the perspective of the sport resource′s accessibility.
However, 4) whereas authors have successfully described the relations between residents′ socio-characteristics and participation in IE, PE, PG, and SL, those results could not be construed appropriately from the viewpoint of sport resource theory, which shows the limitation of this study′s design.
