Grounding Informative Indicators Of Advance In Physical Education And Mass Sports

Abstract

The authors considered disadvantages of modern Russian sports statistics and means for cross-reference of initial data. The requirements to informative indicators of advance in physical education and mass sports were worked out in order to meet the priorities of sports policy and to ensure errors control. The authors propounded general considerations for assessing the indicators of income and expenditure of physical education and mass sports as well as key points to be taken into account when assessing the prevalence of physical activity and the availability of sports infrastructure to the population. The authors used methods of descriptive statistics in order to find repeatable errors in evaluating target indicators of physical education and sports. Input data included official statistics on physical education and sports and alternative and free-source data of opinion polls. The analysis fulfilled made it possible to determine the key points to be taken into account when assessing the prevalence of physical activity and the availability of sports infrastructure to the population. Particularly, it is necessary to take into account the seasonal availability of sports facilities through the data on the overall annual capacity of objects in man-hours and to calculate the actual time spent by citizens for physical exercises at sport facilities.