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The CIS publishes 'Democratic ideal and personal well-being', in co-edition with the CSD
Madrid, 11 November 2011
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The data comes from the "Survey on sporting habits in Spain 2010"
"The number of Spaniards who practice sports is growing"
43% of Spaniards practice sports according to the data collected in the publication "Democratic ideal and personal well-being: Survey on sporting habits in Spain 2010", co-edited by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) and the Higher Sports Council (CSD). ).
Madrid, November 11, 2011. - The percentage of Spanish men and women between 15 and 75 years old who practice sports has gone from 37% to 43% between 2005 and 2010, according to the publication "Democratic ideal and personal well-being", co-published recently by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) and the Higher Sports Council (CSD).
This research, whose central axis is the Study on sporting habits in Spain 2010, carried out by the CIS at the request of the CSD, offers an authentic x-ray of the practice of sport in our country, analyzing its evolution over the last 30 years.
The magnificent research work, directed by the professor of sociology at the University of Valencia Manuel García Ferrando , and in which the doctor in sociology Ramón Llopis Goig , from the same university, also participates, shows, among other conclusions, the fact that Sport is carried out in our country in an increasingly deinstitutionalized way and with a gradual decrease in the competitive purpose. Likewise, more and more citizens practice it in open spaces and more and more people attach greater importance to sport and physical education.
The work analyzes how this practice is carried out by age groups, or based on gender, and what sports items can be found in Spanish homes, in addition to offering information on which sports are most practiced, the degree of use of the facilities sports or how we are proud of the successes of Spanish sports and to what extent these triumphs influence society.
In the same way, it studies the monitoring of sporting life through the media or how sports practice contributes to the social and cultural integration of immigrants in Spain.
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