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National Survey on Recreation and the Environment (NSRE) 2000
NSRE 2000 is the eighth in the continuing series of the U.S. National Recreation Surveys and the second NSRE survey. Although similar to the previous national surveys, NSRE 2000 explores the outdoor recreation needs and environmental interests of the American people in greater depth. The growth of NSRE 2000 reflects the continuing growth of interest in our nation in outdoor recreation and our natural environment.
Marine Recreation
Selected Results
Links to Publications/Questionnaires
NSRE 2000 is an in-the-home phone survey of 50,000 households across all ethnic groups thoughout the United States. Questions from NSRE 2000 broadly address such areas as outdoor recreation participation, demographics, household structure, lifesyles, environmental attitudes natureal resource values, constraints to participation and attitudes toward management policies.
Marine Recreation
NSRE 2000 is the first National survey to include a broad assessment of the Nation's participation in marine recreation. A key difference in the Marine Recreation Participation Module and the rest of the participation module is that it asks in which states participation took place, and for 16 of the activity/settings, the number of days in each state (there was not to be enough abservations to reliably estimate the number of days for three of the activity settings).
Selected Results
In 1999-2000, over 43 percent of the civilain, non-institutionalized population, aged 16 and over participated in outdoor marine recreation. This translates to over 89 million people. Florida had the most participants with 22 million, followed by California with 18 million. The remainder of the states had 7 million or less participants. The participation rate is expected to decline for 13 of the 19 activities/settings, however the increase in population is expected to more than make up for this trend resulting in an increase of participants for all activities settings. For complete results, please see the links to the publications and questionnaires, below.
Links to Publications/Questionnaires
Publications to date include both marine and non-marine information. Also included below are links to the questionnaires. Reports not dealing with marine recreation and links to the questionnaires are on the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Web Site.
Marine Recreation Participation Projections
The following files are referred to in the above report
- Participation (Excel, 368 kb)
This spreadsheet normalizes demographic data from Woods & Poole and uses forecasts of demographic variables to generate projections of participation rates for each of 19 marine recreation activities/settings in the forecast years 2005 and 2010. These numbers are used to derive projections of the absolute number of participants in the forecast years. Please see Appendix B of the main report for further details.
- Days (Excel, 424 kb)
This spreadsheet also normalizes demographic data from Woods & Poole. However, it uses forecasts of demographic variables to generate projections of mean days of participation per person, as opposed to projections of participation rates. From these numbers, projections of total days of participation and of future mean days of participation per participant are derived. Please see Appendix B of the main report for a more thorough explanation.
Recreation Patterns in Marine Recreation
Non-marine Reports and Questionnaires
Note: Efforts are underway to provide online access to NSRE 2000 data with the capability to develop state report profiles. NOAA's Coastal Services Center will be working with coastal states to develop standard profiles.
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