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Market Segmentation - what is it?

Sport England’s market segmentation project is an innovative piece of research which explores sporting behaviour and attitudes beyond social and economic characteristics. Lincolnshire Sports Partnership’s role is to encourage use of this data to improve local intelligence.

Using data from the Taking Part and Active People surveys and linking this with a wide variety of socio-demographic data, the English population (18+) has been segmented into 19 distinct groups.

Each segment is defined by its socio—demographics and has been attributed sporting behaviour and attitudes beyond the information available in the Taking Part and Active People survey. This information includes information on health, other recreational activities, holidays, media consumption, social capital, economic outlook and deprivation.

The 19 segments are divided into four super groups, the 18-30 year olds (Group A), 30-45 (Group B), 46-65 (Group C), and 65+ (Group D). Within each super group it is possible to calculate the likelihood of someone taking part in particular sports, what they like about sport, what would make them do more. The segment descriptions also give an indication of what kind of messages and mediums would most likely reach particular segments.

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