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• Table 34: Frequency of visiting any of the citys beaches in the last 12 months (q11a+q11b+q11c):
• Table 35: Total visits to Christchurch parks and beaches in the last 12 months (q11):
• Table 36: Number of persons by number of occasions have visited a park or beach in the last 12 months (q11):
• Table 37: Reasons for respondents not going to a park in the last 12 months (q12):
• Table 38: Should the Council do more or less to make parks suitable for the following activities (q13):
• Table 39: How well parks are looked after (q14):

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PARKS (continued)

Table 34: Frequency of visiting any of the citys beaches in the last 12 months (q11a+q11b+q11c):

Note: this covers all persons

		WARMER MONTHS
COLDER MONTHS	Year	Every day or almost every day	Once a week or more	Once a month or more	Less than once a month	Not at all in one or other of the seasons	Don't know	Total
Every day or	1995	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
almost every day	1996	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
	1997	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
Once a week or	1995	2	3	0	0	0	0	5
more	1996	2	4	0	0	0	0	6
	1997	2	5	0	0	0	0	8
Once a month or	1995	0	5	5	0	0	0	11
more	1996	0	3	5	0	0	0	9
	1997	0	5	10	0	0	0	15
Less than once a	1995	0	3	8	12	0	0	22
month	1996	1	4	10	12	0	0	26
	1997	0	2	9	11	0	0	22
Not at all in one	1995	1	3	8	17	30	0	59
or other of the	1996	1	3	4	15	33	0	56
seasons	1997	0	3	6	17	26	0	53
Don't know	1995	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	1996	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
	1997	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	1995	5	14	22	29	30	0	100
	1996	5	13	20	29	32	0	100
	1997	6	14	25	28	26	0	100

Table 35: Total visits to Christchurch parks and beaches in the last 12 months (q11):

Note: this covers all responses for persons who have visited parks and beaches in the last 12 months (number of people and percentage of visits)

	1995	1996	1997
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Botanic Gardens or Mona Vale	586	20	601	20	607	19
Hagley Park	504	17	527	17	538	17
A large sports park	183	6	200	7	183	6
Parks or reserves on the Port Hills	304	10	300	10	336	11
Any other large Christchurch park	373	13	401	13	385	12
A small neighbourhood park	440	15	507	16	534	17
A city beach	540	18	538	18	598	19
Total	2,930	100	3,074	100	3,181	100

Table 36: Number of persons by number of occasions have visited a park or beach in the last 12 months (q11):

Note: this covers all persons (number of people and percentage of visits)

	1995	1996	1997
Have not been to any park or beach	5	5	6
Have been to one only	6	8	6
Have been to two	12	10	12
Have been to three	12	14	13
Have been to four	23	20	18
Have been to five	21	20	23
Have been to six	17	16	17
Have been to seven	4	6	5
Total	100	100	100

Table 37: Reasons for respondents not going to a park in the last 12 months (q12):

Note: this covers all persons who have not visited a park in the last 12 months (percentages) (1995: 42 persons; 1997: 47 persons)

	1995	1997
Health reasons	27	45
Not enough time	31	13
Prefer other recreation	19	20
Not conveniently located / too hard to get to	6	5
Cost of getting there is too high	0	0
Another reason (see list 5)	18	18
Total	100	100

Table 38: Should the Council do more or less to make parks suitable for the following activities (q13):

Note: this covers all persons (percentages)

	Year	Should do a lot more	Should do a little more	Does about the right amount	Should do a little less	Should do a lot less	Don't know
Sport run by a club or	1995	3	12	60	2	0	24
organisation	1996	3	10	68	2	1	16
	1997	5	10	66	2	0	18
For casual games between	1995	2	8	71	1	0	18
friends	1996	2	9	76	1	0	12
	1997	2	7	74	1	0	17
For picnics	1995	3	16	69	2	0	11
	1996	4	19	70	1	0	7
	1997	4	16	72	0	0	8
For enjoying flowers	1995	3	11	78	1	0	7
	1996	3	10	79	1	0	6
	1997	3	12	77	0	0	8
For exercising dogs	1995	9	15	40	3	8	25
	1996	10	17	47	4	4	18
	1997	8	19	44	4	5	19
For quiet enjoyment	1995	1	5	87	0	0	6
	1996	1	6	87	0	0	5
	1997	2	6	86	0	0	6
For children's play	1995	4	15	68	1	0	12
	1996	6	17	67	0	0	9
	1997	4	17	67	1	0	10
For families wanting to	1995	2	10	79	0	0	9
enjoy themselves together	1996	4	10	79	0	0	6
	1997	3	10	79	0	0	8
For walking or jogging	1995	2	6	82	1	0	9
	1996	1	12	81	0	0	6
	1997	2	8	83	0	0	8
For cycling	1995	5	14	53	4	2	22
	1996	4	15	62	3	1	16
	1997	4	17	55	2	1	20

Table 39: How well parks are looked after (q14):

Note: this covers all persons (percentages)

	1995	1996	1997
Parks are looked after very well	49	49	52
Parks are looked after well	42	43	41
Parks are looked after neither well nor badly	7	6	5
Parks are looked after badly	0	1	1
Parks are looked after very badly	0	0	0
Don't know how well parks are looked after	2	1	1
Total	100	100	100

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