Membership Insights Survey 2017

Fun & friends are the big attractions to all skaters ◦ then fitness for the members answering

◦ or excitement for the children

Public sessions is where most of our skaters come from, but friends feature throughout

Children stay in the sport for 6.7 years

Volunteers mostly stepped up because of the need

52

44

41

21

21

7

3

3

19

17

6

4

2

2

12

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Fun

Love it

Great Sport

fitness

Enjoyment

advocate

team spirit

family enviroment

Other Positive

cost

politics

too old

needs more people

travel

Other Negative

91%

9%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Yes

No

Have you ever worn skates?(n=306)

69%

31%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Yes

No

Are you currently skating?(n=270)

65

37

32

31

27

13

12

12

10

9

24

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Though public sessions

Through a skating club

I was given a pair of skates

Through Friends

My siblings were into skating

Through my children

My parents were into skating

Grew up playing

Ice

School

Other

Answered 258

How long have you been skating for, or how long did you skate for?

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 30+

Nu

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Years on Skates

Currently Previously

17%

12%

11%

10%

10%

8%

8%

7%

7%

5%

3%

1%

0%

0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16% 18% 20%

Fun

Friends

Fitness

Skill

Excitement

Speed

Challenging

Teamwork

Competitions

Training

Other

School

Outfits

46%

29%

5%

5%

5%

3%

1%

1%

1%

5%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

Inline Hockey

Recreational

Freestyle (inline)

Speed

Aggressive

Artistic

Quad Hockey

Downhill

Roller Derby

Other (please specify)

25% say they have done skating other than inline hockey or recreational

What skating are you doing or have done?

From their parents ….

27%

26%

21%

13%

11%

10%

9%

2%

5%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%

Through a skating club

Through public sessions

I am/was a skater

school

friend

Was given a pair of skates

siblings were into skating

learn to skate

other

How did your child or children get into skating?

20%

13%

13%

9%

8%

8%

7%

6%

5%

4%

4%

2%

2%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%

Fun

Excitement

Friends

Skill

Challenging

Speed

Teamwork

Competitions

Fitness

Training

School

Outfits

Other (please specify)

What attracted your child or children to skating?

161

48

10

3

2

2

1

0

7

61

28

5

1

4

3

0

1

6

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180

Inline Hockey

Recreational

Freestyle (inline)

Aggressive

Speed

Artistic

Quad Hockey

Roller Derby

Other (please specify)

Answered 238

47% of our currently skating families only have one child skating

35% have two children skating

18% have three or more!

40% had at least one other child who skated47%

35%

14%

4%

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

1 2 3 4

Current Children Skating

The median tenure in skating is 6.7 years

Looking at the current duration of skaters the numbers start to drop after 4 years

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 15+

Nu

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Years skating

Current Previous

Answered 235

54% of our members have been a volunteer

only about ½ of those still are volunteers(This is even after allowing for the different response counts)

54%

46%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Yes

No

Have you ever been an official? Club committee, scorer, referee, marshal, announcer, judge,

served on a skating committee.

27%

29%

0% 20% 40% 60%

Yes

No

Are you currently official?

144 71

29%

28%

21%

14%

1%

1%

1%

5%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%

was asked to help

My children are/were skating

Through a skating club

I was/am skater

Friends

My siblings were into skating

Through public sessions

Other (please specify)

How did you get into being an official?

74

28

20

16

13

13

10

10

9

6

3

3

2

3

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

Children need officials

Teamwork

Friendship

needed

Fun

Competitions

Skill

wanted to

Challenging

Excitement

Fitness

asked

pressured

other

0

5

10

15

20

25

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 15+

Nu

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Years Volunteering

Current Previous

Answered 139

51%

47%

2%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Male

Female

Prefer not to say

Your gender is

23%

21%

13%

10%

7%

7%

6%

5%

3%

2%

0%

0%

5%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%

Waikato

Auckland

Wellington

Taranaki

Northland

Manawatu-Wanganui

Bay of Plenty

Nelson

Canterbury

Hawkes Bay

Tasman

Southland

Other (please specify)

Which region of New Zealand do you live in?

Survey Monkey invite to all current members

Asked about how they got into skating, what styles of skating they have done

Volunteer activity with skating

787 invitations were sent to current ihnzmembers.

2 reminder emails were sent to those who had not started the survey

82% read the email invitation 52% clicked through to the survey 256 people completed the survey 147 completed part of the survey

When asking about officials explicitly include club officers.

Include an introduction that this is for all roller skating including inline.