Bouncing back or staying inactive? The social inequality in sport participation before, during and after the COVID-pandemic

This contribution addresses the development of educational and financial inequality in sport participation Netherlands over course COVID-pandemic. More specifically, we deal with issue whether increased during COVID-pandemic is temporary or becomes permanent after relaxation COVID-measures. We expected lower educated people problems to have less resources bounce back continue To test our expectations, performed multinominal logistic regression analyses on longitudinal data from Dutch LISS-panel (n = 1.157). Our results confirmed that higher more often bounced their COVID. Lower were likely completely dropout. main conclusion further study enhances understanding long-term impact participation, might lead intensified promotion policies. Ongoing attention policymakers for vulnerable groups required tackle social enlarged by