Sports facilities; types and use 1987 - 2012
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This table presents an overview on the types and use of swimming pools, indoor sports facilities and outdoor sports facilities. The figures are restricted to swimming pools and sports facilities operated by either local government or by commercial operators (private limited companies etc.) registered at the Chambers of Commerce as having the operation of swimming pools and/or sports facilities as their main activity.
Data available from: 1987-2012
Status of the figures: all figures are definite.
Changes as of 28 January 2019:
None. This table has been discontinued.
When will new figures be published?
No longer applicable.
Description topics
- Swimming pools
- Type of swimming pool
- Indoor swimming pools
- Visits to swimming pools by type of pool
- Visits per indoor swimming pool
- Swim. pools with recreational facilities
- Shown as a percentage of the total number of swimming pools.
- Indoor swimming pools
- Shown as a percentage of the total number of indoor swimming pools.
- Indoor sports facilities
- Total number of facilities
- Visits per week
- Total number of visits per week by people who practise a sport.
From 1997 onwards the figures only include facilities operated by commercial operators.
- Type of facility and visits
- Indoor sports facilities by type and the total number of visits per week of indoor sports facilities.
Reference week for the visits: a week in September.- Sports hall (small) facilities
- A facility with one or more small sports halls, possibly in combination with other sports rooms, but without a large sports hall.
- Number of facilities
- Visits per week
- Total number of visits per week by people who practise a sport.
From 1997 onwards the figures only include facilities operated by
commercial operators.
- Sports hall (large) facilities
- A facility with one or more large sports halls, possibly in combination
with small sports halls or other sports rooms.- Number of facilities
- Visits per week
- Total number of visits per week by people who practise a sport.
From 1997 onwards the figures only include facilities operated by
commercial operators.
- Indoor tennis court facilities
- A facility with one or more indoor tennis courts, possibly in combination
with other sports rooms, but without a small sports hall and without a
large sports hall.- Number of facilities
- Visits per week
- Total number of visits per week by people who practise a sport.
From 1997 onwards the figures only include facilities operated by
commercial operators.
- Other indoor sports facilities
- A facility with one or more sports rooms (for example for bowling, squash, ice-skating or billiards), but without a small or large sports hall and without indoor tennis courts.
- Number of facilities
- Visits per week
- Total number of visits per week by people who practise a sport.
From 1997 onwards the figures only include facilities operated by
commercial operators.
- General sports halls and sports rooms
- Small sports halls
- A small sports hall is a multifunctional sports room equipped for more than one type of sport. The size of a small sports hall is less than 42 metres by 22 metres.
- Large sports halls
- A large sports hall is a multifunctional sports room equipped for more than one type of sport. The size of a large sports hall is at least 42 metres by 22 metres.
- Indoor ice-skating rinks
- Gymnasiums
- Specifically equipped sports rooms
- The courts and tables in sports rooms that are specifically equipped for just one type of sport.
- Total number of courts, tables, rooms
- Total number of tennis courts, squash courts, table-tennis tables, billiard tables, skittles alleys and bowling alleys in sports rooms that are specifically equipped for just one type of sport, plus the number of sports rooms specifically equipped for other sports than tennis, squash, skittles, bowling, table-tennis or billiards.
- Tennis courts
- Squash courts
- Skittles and bowling alleys
- Table-tennis tables
- Billiard tables
- Other courts, tables, rooms
- Including the number of sports rooms specifically equipped for other sports than tennis, squash, skittles, bowling, table-tennis or billiards.
- Outdoor sports facilities
- Type of facility and visits
- Outdoor sports facilities by type and the total number of visits per week of outdoor sports facilities by people who practise a sport.
Reference week for the visits: a week in September.- Fac. for field games and other sports
- For instance a facility with pitches for hockey and a speed skating track.
- Fac. for only other outdoor sports
- For instance a golf course.
- Pitches, courts, tracks, etc.
- The pitches, tracks, courts, etc. on outdoor sports facilities that comply
with competition requirements.
Pitches, tracks, courts, etc. that can only be used for training purposes
are therefore excluded.- Fields, tracks, etc. for other sports
- For instance athletics tracks, golf courses (number of holes), speed
skating tracks and cycling tracks.