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The relationship between participation in sport and sport volunteering: an economic analysis

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posted on 2017-03-16, 11:45 authored by Peter Dawson, Paul DownwardPaul Downward
This paper explores the relationship between participation in sport as a consumer activity and sport volunteering as a producer activity. Using data from the Taking Part Survey, evidence is found that the decision to engage in sports participation and sports volunteering as well as the duration of the activities are complementary. In general, the findings confirm the well-established impacts of human and economic capital on engagement in sports-related activities, as well as the availability of time. However, there is evidence of the shifting roles of consumption and production of sport as family commitments change while differential effects are also found with respect to ethnicity, health, and the accessibility of sports facilities.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

International Journal of Sports Finance

Volume

8

Issue

1

Pages

75 - 92

Citation

DAWSON, P. and DOWNWARD, P., 2013. The relationship between participation in sport and sport volunteering: an economic analysis. International Journal of Sports Finance, 8 (1), pp.75-92.

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© West Virginia University

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2013

ISSN

1558-6235

eISSN

1930-076X

Language

  • en

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