Long-Term National Trends in Outdoor Recreation Activity Participation---1980 to Now

A RECREATION Research Report in the IRIS Series. 

For this paper we start with the 1982-83 NRS. The listing of activities in that earlier survey was much shorter than is found in the current NSRE. As well, some activity definitional changes have occurred, often because of new activities people have taken up, or because of the emergence of components of a former activity grouping as major activities in themselves. A good example of the latter is the activity called “Bird watching and other nature study activities” in the 1982-83 NRS, which now has been split into bird watching, wildlife viewing, and other nature activities.