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Barriers to Participation in Sport / Exercise

Data from Jan 2019 to Dec 2025

Last updated: 10 Apr 2026, 11:58 SGT

SPORT (Sport Singapore)

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This dataset presents information on the different barriers to sport and exercise participation, categorised by the survey year, age group, and sex of the National Sport & Exercise Participation (NSPS) survey respondents.

Related Resources: https://go.gov.sg/sportdexsg-barriers

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BarrierstoParticipationinSportExercise.csv (555 rows, 33.3 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Age Group Text	Sex Text	Barriers Text	Percentage Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0% 202014.4% 202114.4% 202314.4% 202414.4%	(Null)0.0% 20 - 3925.2% 40 - 5925.2% 60+25.0% 13 - 1924.5%	(Null)0.0% Male50.1% Female49.9%	(Null)0.0% I prefer spending time on other activity9.9% Others9.2% I am too busy working overtime8.1% I need to take care of family members (elderly or children)8.1%	(Null)0.0%
2019	13 - 19	Female	I prefer spending time on other activity	50
2019	13 - 19	Female	I am studying and working (part-time/full-time)	33
2019	13 - 19	Female	I am too busy with schoolwork/school’s activities	26
2019	13 - 19	Female	I do not think I am good enough at sport	21
2019	13 - 19	Female	The weather in Singapore is too hard to predict/forecast for sport activity	9
2019	13 - 19	Female	The weather in Singapore is too hot for doing sport	5
2019	13 - 19	Female	The facility that I prefer are always fully booked	3
2019	13 - 19	Female	I do not have anyone to play with	2
2019	13 - 19	Male	I prefer spending time on other activity	27
2019	13 - 19	Male	I am too busy with schoolwork/school’s activities	22

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	Year	Year (YYYY)	-	2019 to 2025.
Age Group	AgeGroup	Text	-	The age groups are 13 to 19, 20 to 39, 40 to 59 and 60+ years old.
Sex	Sex	Text	-	Sex of respondent. The sex is Male or Female.
Barriers	Barriers	Text	-	Key barriers to sports and exercise participation among past year non-participants.
Percentage	Percentage	Numeric (Percentage)	-	Percentage of past year non-participants who chose each reason as their barriers to participating in sports and exercise.

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_466a8e16e4edfe5ee693b8273a62b835"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Sport Singapore. (2026). Barriers to Participation in Sport / Exercise (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 8, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_466a8e16e4edfe5ee693b8273a62b835/view

About this dataset

Contact

SPORT_Research@sport.gov.sg

Created on

12 Mar 2026

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

SPORT (Sport Singapore)