A telephone survey was conducted from 28 to 30 December 2015 by Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong to gauge public attitudes towards physical exercises in Hong Kong. 723 respondents aged 18 or above were successfully interviewed, with a response rate of 42.7%. The sampling error is + or –3.64% at a confidence level of 95%.<\/p>
Major findings are summarized as follows:<\/strong><\/p> In the current survey, the respondents were asked about their habits and attitudes towards physical exercises. When asked about the frequency of exercising in the past six months, about one-third of respondents answered rarely or no exercises (34.0%), while 32.1% of respondents said often and 33.9% said sometimes.<\/p> Out of those who responded not doing any exercises, more than half (52.4%) said that “they are too busy and have no time for exercises”. 17.5% said that “they have health problems and are unable to do exercises”. Another 13.6% said “exercising is too hard”, and another 10.7% said “they do not like doing exercises”.<\/p> For the respondents who do exercises, the average exercising time reported is 3.9 hours per week. About three-fifth (59.2%) of them exercise for less than four hours a week. While 32.9% said they exercise for more than four hours, 7.9% of respondents did not give a clear answer. The most popular exercise is running, where 43.9% of respondents said this to be the most frequently done exercise. Other popular exercises include hiking (10.6%), ballgames (9.7%), taichi or qigong (9.5%) and fitness training (8.1%).<\/p> Among those who exercise, more than two-third (70.0%) said that the main reason for doing exercise is to train the body and keep healthy. Another 14.0% of the respondents said that they do exercises for losing weight or getting the body in shape. Other reasons include relaxing from pressure (8.7%), exercising for fun (8.5%), meeting up with friends and relatives (6.9%) and killing time (4.5%).<\/p> The respondents hold diverse views about whether there are sufficient public sports facilities. About one-third (34.9%) said they are not sufficient, while another one-third (32.0%) said the opposite. Another 27.8% said “in-between”. When asked which kind of facilities they most wanted the government to build in their local community, the demand of respondents is also diverse. About one-fifth (21.7%) responded that they want to have extra fitness training facilities. Another 18.8% want to have more cycling tracks. Other popular suggestions include water sports facilities (15.6%), courts for ballgames (11.9%) and track and field facilities (9.7%).<\/p>","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":null,"attachments":null,"video_source":null,"video_file":null,"add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":"2166","photos_original":null,"attachments_original":[{"link":"5698771a87bb5.pdf","text":"Attachment (Chinese version only)"}]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/49150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/49150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}