Exploring constraints to leisure participation within the countryside

Figures & data

Table 1. Participant Demographics (n = 29)

Pseudonym	MOP Code	Gender	Age	Region	Occupation
Betty	B1180	Female	(born 1930s)	South Coast	Retired clerk
Barbara	B1771	Female	83	Surrey	Retired secretary
Brian	B3227	Male	52	Birmingham	Administrator for religious studies centre
Brenda	B4290	Female	48	West Suffolk	Education and administration
Dorothy	D2485	Female	76	Bristol	Retired secretary of 40 years
Dawn	D5380	Female	49	(Yorkshire)	Civil servant
Frances	F218	Female	72	Suffolk	Mum to two sons
Freda	F3409	Female	71	East Midlands	Civil servant & deputy registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. Now retired
Frank	F4873	Male	(born 1960s)	(Southwest)	IT consultant
Helen	H1705	Female	65	Jersey	Amateur artist
Holly	H1745	Female	68	London	Researcher/writer/editor
Hazel	H2637	Female	79	London	Retired librarian
Judith	J1809	Female	87	(Yorkshire)	News agency assistant
Janet	J2891	Female	54	(Wales)	Caseworker & county councillor
Keith	K5262	Male	50	(Cheshire)	Railway signalling designer
Mark	M5015	Male	63	Cambridgeshire	Retired property landlord
Mary	M5113	Female	(born 1970s)	Pennines	(unknown)
Patricia	P1796	Female	72	Dorset	Retired administrator
Rose	R860	Female	71	(Cheshire)	Retired hairdressing lecturer
Ruth	R1025	Female	76	(Buckinghamshire)	Formerly book-keeper
Sharon	S1399	Female	70	(Southeast)	No job
Teresa	T534	Female	67	Kent	Carer for late mother & family
Tom	T5025	Male	33	Oxfordshire	Copywriting
Vernon	V3767	Male	81	Cambridgeshire	Retired from managing my own company
Valerie	V3773	Female	56	(West Midlands)	NHS clinical coder, ex-book seller, psychology graduate
Wendy	W1813	Female	68	Staffordshire	Retired teacher
Wilma	W2338	Female	86	York	Retired teacher
Will	W5345	Male	23	West Midlands	Archivist
Winifred	W632	Female	77	West Sussex	Retired business analyst

Table 2. Themes and Sub-themes

Themes	Sub-themes
Relationship with the outdoors	City mouse/country mouse Indifference towards the countryside
Lack of belonging	The countryside code Lack of shared common experience
Prevention of access to the countryside	Lack of access to and maintenance of public rights of way Lack of public transport
Urbanisation of the countryside	Building on rural space Overcrowding of public spaces
“For the tired and retired”

Data Availability Statement

The data used in this study can be accessed on request from the Mass Observation Project, The Keep, Brighton. http://www.massobs.org.uk/about/mass-observation-project