Keep Calgary Playing

Sources, Data & Methodology

The Information behind Sport Calgary’s Keep Calgary Playing Campaign

Sport Calgary is committed to ensuring the information used in the Keep Calgary Playing campaign is transparent, credible, and appropriately represented. The campaign brings together information from the City of Calgary, Statistics Canada, established Canadian research, Sport Calgary research, community sport organizations and other sector partners to help illustrate current demand for sport and recreation, facility capacity and Calgary's long-term infrastructure needs.

This page explains where our information comes from, how Sport Calgary has used it, and important context for interpreting the numbers.

Our Sources

Campaign information draws primarily from:

Sport Calgary is committed to using data transparently and updating campaign information when new or more current information becomes available.

Detailed Source Information

How We Use Data

Sport Calgary aims to distinguish clearly between four types of information used throughout the Keep Calgary Playing campaign:

NoteNumbers may be rounded for readability. Dates and populations are included where they materially affect interpretation.

Important Limitations

No Single Dataset Captures Every Person Who Wants to Participate in Sport and Recreation in Calgary.

Organizations use different registration systems and different definitions of waitlists and capacity. Some maintain formal waitlists; some close registration when programs are full; others do not track unmet demand.

Accordingly, Sport Calgary does not claim that its community sport research represents a complete census of Calgary's sport system or that documented waitlist registrations represent unique individuals.

Instead, the research is intended to provide evidence of the scale and nature of demand and capacity constraints reported by participating organizations, alongside independently published City of Calgary and national research.

Where projections or modeled scenarios are presented, they are identified as projections or modeled outcomes rather than current conditions or guaranteed results.