Sports and Physical Activities in Europe: How to Measure Active Lifestyles

The paper presents the importance of monitoring participation in sports and physical activities. In fact, the regular practice of physical activity brings physical, psychological and social benefits. The Governments should support the measures taken in this field by the monitoring, control work, preparation of appropriate tools and platforms, evaluation and research. We analysed the results from Special Eurobarometer survey (2014) and discuss their limits, suggesting new strategies to improve their use to individualize patterns and rankings of the 28 EU countries in sports participation. For this purpose, we did not analyse issued results, but reprocess the individual record file in a different way, using COMPASS strategy to help us. We applied a multivariate statistical model (logistic regression) to study which are the determinants of sport participation in the European Union.