Alberta Recreation Survey
The Alberta Recreation Survey is a series of surveys that have been conducted approximately every four years since 1981. The survey collects information related to participation patterns of Albertans and the factors which influence their recreation activity choices. The following questions have consistently been included in each survey: participation by household members and respondents in an extensive array of social, creative, cultural, recreation, outdoor and sport activities; respondents' three favourite activities and reasons for participation in their first favourite activity; an activity respondents would like to start and the reasons for not starting the activity, involvement as a volunteer; opinions on recreation and parks activities and services and demographic information about the respondents and their households.
- Publisher
- Government of Alberta
- Resources
- 7
- Catalogue metadata updated
- 2026-06-17
Data overview
- Formats
- HTML, XLSX
- File languages
- English
- Available actions
- 6 loadable resources
Official sources and licences
Resources
- Alberta Recreation Survey 2000 data set (English, XLSX) XLSX
- Alberta Recreation Survey 2004 data set (English, XLSX) XLSX
- Alberta Recreation Survey 2008 data set (English, XLSX) XLSX
- Alberta Recreation Survey 2013 data set (English, XLSX) XLSX
- Alberta Recreation Survey 2017 data set (English, XLSX) XLSX
- Alberta Recreation Survey 2022 data set (English, XLSX) XLSX
- Original metadata (https://open.alberta.ca/opendata) (English, HTML) HTML