Welcome to CIMSPA Data Lab

Your trusted hub for data, insight, and evidence on the UK’s sport and physical activity workforce. This platform brings together comprehensive datasets, research findings, and workforce intelligence in one accessible, ethically governed space.

Our purpose is simple: to empower better decisions, strengthen policy, and deepen understanding of the people and organisations driving sport and physical activity across the UK.

Explore the data

Discover and access high quality datasets relating to the sport and physical activity workforce. The Data Lab catalogue cover both quantitative and qualitative data including:

• Hard workforce intelligence: Quantitative data showing the big picture—size, scale, trends, and depth of the workforce at sector or industry level.
• Soft workforce intelligence: Insights from employers and key stakeholders (e.g., education providers) that interpret and rationalise hard data.
• Individualistic workforce intelligence: First-hand experiences and perspectives from the workforce, offering context and explaining the “why” behind hard and soft intelligence.
• Related intelligence: Contextual information on external factors—drivers, pressures, and research—that influence workforce dynamics.

Secure, ethical and trusted

All data within the CIMSPA Data Lab is managed according to the CIMSPA Data Governance Framework, aligned with the Sport & Physical Activity Workforce Observatory SAFE Principles Framework and compliant with the UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice:

• SAFE Principles Framework
• CIMSPA’s Statement of Compliance: UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice