Abstract
Leisure time sport and exercise underwent remarkable development in Denmark between 1964 and 2007. Today’s sport and exercise participants represent all age groups from young children to seniors, and the latest survey representative of the Danish nation from 2007 showed that participation level no longer resembles a linear drop with increased age as has earlier been the case. The aim of the article is to analyse whether sport and exercise participation has developed as a means of generation, life phase or periodical effects. In the analysis only data from 1975, 1987, 1998 and 2007 will be in-cluded. The results show that sport and exercise participation is affected by all three theo-retical perspectives. Periodical effects have the greatest impact on development – and bigger for women than men – followed by life phase (considering a linear drop in participation level with older stages in life) and generational effects. Further, an alternative model of a curve-linear life phase effect is occurring in 2007. With this in mind the paper presents two perspectives of interpretations that sport providers need to consider, particularly in order to organise activities and to accommodate needs and demands in different life phases and generations in the future.
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