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Research, Evaluation and Insights

Sport NZ’s research, evaluation and insights
Find the latest research, data, evaluations and tools to support informed decisions and create better outcomes in play, active recreation and sport.

Whether you’re looking to understand what works, advocate for the value of being active, or strengthen your organisation’s insights capability, this section is here to help you.

Everything here will help you and your organisation give more people better chances to be active across Aotearoa. Our goal is to support strong, adaptable organisations that make a real difference.

Participation data and tools

Explore how people are getting active across Aotearoa. Use interactive tools to find insights by sport, activity and region.

Participation data and tools
Reports and publications

Access Sport NZ’s latest research and evaluation reports. Learn how people are participating and what’s making a difference.

Reports and Publications
Demographic groups and community insights

Find insights on young people, women and girls, disabled people, and ethnic communities and how they experience play, recreation and sport.

Demographic Group Insights
Value of play, active recreation and sport

Discover research on the social, economic and community value of play, active recreation and sport in Aotearoa.

Value of play active recreation and sport
Sport System sustainability

Explore what helps build a strong, future-ready sector – from funding and volunteering to strategy and futures thinking.

Sport System sustainability
Research, insights and evaluation toolkit

Access practical tools and resources to support your research, apply insights and use evidence in your mahi.

Research, insights and evaluation toolkit

Topics A-Z

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  • Active NZ
  • Active Bodies, Active Minds, 2025
  • Active As Evaluation, 2024

  • B
  • C
  • The combined value of sport and active recreation in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024 
  • Club experience survey
  • Case studies  
  • Combined value of sport and active recreation, 2023  
  • D
  • Disability
  • Diversity, equity and inclusion survey
  • Determinants of Physical Activity in Young People  
  • E
  • Economic value of sport
  • Ethnicity
  • F
  • Funding our sector
  • Future of our sector
  • G
  • H
  • Healthy Active Learning evaluation  
  • I
  • Insights Tool
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M

  • Mātaio evaluation 2024
    Media coverage in Women’s Sport 
    Muslim women and girls 
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Participation of Asian Population Groups
  • Q

  • R

  • Research, evaluation and insights resource hub
  • Rangatahi Peer Crowds 
  • S

  • Social return on investment
    Strategic outcomes and measures
  • School sport census  
  • Spotlight on Tamariki  
  • Spotlight on Rangatahi 
  • Spotlight on Disability 
  • T

  • Tamariki and Rangatahi insights
    Technology in youth physical activity
  • Tū Manawa evaluation 2020-2024 
  • U

  • V

  • Voice of Participant
    Voice of Rangatahi
    Voice of Tamariki
    Value of play, active recreation and sport
    Value of Sport 2017
    Value of physical activity in the education sector
    Volunteering insights
  • W

  • Women and Girls
  • X

  • Y

  • Young people profile
  • Young Women and Girls profile
  • Z

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