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• Table 49: Have respondents been to or taken part in any community-based activities in the last 12 months (q19a):
• Table 50: What community-based activities have respondents been to, or taken part in, in the last 12 months (q19b):
• Table 51: Where community-based activities have been held (q20):
• Table 52: Reasons for using private homes rather than community-based facilities (q21):
• Table 53: Where community-based activities have been held (q22a)
• Table 54: Satisfaction at the facilities most often visited in the last 12 months (q22b):
• Table 55: Persons under 18 taking part in community-based activities in the last 12 months (q23a):
• Table 56: Community-based activities attended or taken part in for under 18 year olds (q23b):
• Table 57: Places where under 18 year olds attended community-based activities (q24):

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Table 49: Have respondents been to or taken part in any community-based activities in the last 12 months (q19a):

Note: this covers all persons (percentages)

	1995	1996	1997
No have not taken part in community-based activities	40	32	37
Yes have taken part in community-based activities	60	68	63
Don't know	0	0	0
Total	100	100	100

Table 50: What community-based activities have respondents been to, or taken part in, in the last 12 months (q19b):

Note: this covers all responses from persons who have been to or taken part in community-based activities (percentages of responses)

(1995: 465 persons, 1144 responses; 1996: 535 persons, 1245 responses;

1997: 507 persons, 1176 responses)

	1995	1996	1997
A public meeting	9	8	7
A group or club meeting	23	23	23
A course in your spare time	14	11	10
A recreation programme	8	6	7
Entertainment involving a community group	14	14	16
A community or club function	15	17	16
A fund-raising event	16	18	17
Another type of activity (see list 7)	2	2	3
Total	100	100	100

Table 51: Where community-based activities have been held (q20):

Note: this covers all responses from persons who have taken part in community-based activities (percentages of responses)

(1995: 465 persons, 1012 responses; 1996: 535 persons, 1078 responses;
1997: 507 persons, 1053 responses)

	1995	1996	1997
Community centre	9	7	8
Community hall	11	10	9
Church facilities	8	9	10
Classroom	7	6	6
School hall or other school facilities	14	14	11
Clubrooms	19	21	18
Reception lounge	4	4	4
A private home	10	10	9
Another indoor place (see list 8)	9	10	14
An outdoor place (see list 9)	9	9	12
Total	100	100	100

Table 52: Reasons for using private homes rather than community-based facilities (q21):

Note: this covers all responses from persons who used a private home for community-based activities (percentages of responses)

(1995: 101 persons, 112 responses; 1996: 109 persons, 121 responses;
1997: 91 persons, 102 responses)

	1995	1996	1997
No community facilities available	1	0	0
Community facilities not adequate	0	1	0
Community facilities too expensive	2	9	5
Community facilities not required for our purpose	18	17	21
Prefer to use a home	44	47	33
Other reasons (see list 10)	35	26	41
Total	100	100	100

Table 53: Where community-based activities have been held (q22a)

Note: this covers places been to most often (percentages)

(1995: 465 persons; 1996: 535 persons; 1997: 507 persons)

	1995	1996	1997
Community centre	8	5	8
Community hall	8	9	7
Church facilities	9	10	11
Classroom	7	5	4
School hall or other school facilities	14	13	10
Clubrooms	26	29	25
Reception lounge	1	2	1
A private home	6	5	4
Another indoor place (see list 11)	11	12	18
An outdoor place (see list 12)	8	10	10
Not specified	1	0	0
Total	100	100	100

Table 54: Satisfaction at the facilities most often visited in the last 12 months (q22b):

Note: this covers all persons who have been to or taken part in community-based activity (percentages) (1995: 465 persons; 1996: 535 persons;
1997: 507 persons)

	1995	1996	1997
Very satisfied with facilities	38	38	43
Satisfied with facilities	48	52	46
No feeling whether satisfied or dissatisfied with facilities	5	3	4
Dissatisfied with facilities	5	3	4
Very dissatisfied with facilities	1	0	1
Don't know	3	4	1
Total	100	100	100

Table 55: Persons under 18 taking part in community-based activities in the last 12 months (q23a):

Note: this covers all households with persons under 18 (percentages)

(1995: 230 households; 1996: 270 households; 1997: 256 households)

	1995	1996	1997
No have not taken part in community-based activities	41	40	36
Yes have taken part in community-based activities	55	55	61
Don't know	5	5	3
Total	100	100	100

Table 56: Community-based activities attended or taken part in for under 18 year olds (q23b):

Note: this covers all responses for persons under 18 years old who have taken part in community-based activities (percentages of activities)

(1995: 126 households, 259 activities; 1996: 153 households, 309 activities;
1997: 154 households, 304 activities)

	1995	1996	1997
A public meeting	3	1	3
A group or club meeting	19	19	19
A course in your spare time	5	5	7
A recreation programme	18	23	17
Entertainment involving a community group	20	16	16
A community or club function	10	13	13
A fund-raising event	22	21	21
Another type of activity (see list 13)	4	2	5
Total	100	100	100

Table 57: Places where under 18 year olds attended community-based activities (q24):

Note: this covers all responses from persons under 18 years old who have taken part in community-based activities (percentages of activities)

(1995: 126 households, 244 activities; 1996: 153 households, ??? activities
1997: 154 households, 277 activities)

	1995	1996	1997
Community centre	9	9	6
Community hall	11	7	10
Church facilities	9	8	13
Classroom	6	7	6
School hall or other school facilities	23	28	22
Clubrooms	17	15	15
Reception lounge	0	0	1
A private home	4	2	6
Another indoor place (see list 14)	8	11	7
An outdoor place (see list 15)	13	13	14
Total	100	100	100

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