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The Economic Dimension of Sport

The Narrow Definition of Sport comprises everything of 92.6 (Statistical Definition of Sport) plus all goods and services that are needed to do sports, thus all inputs to sport. Values therefore must be higher. The shares of national employment within this definition are more evenly distributed. There is a group of small countries, Luxembourg (3.70%), Austria (3.21%) and Slovenia (2.43%) which rank first, being a result of sport tourism and other sport-related services. Employment in the narrow definition is also in well above the average in Finland, Estonia, and Cyprus. Most other countries achieve an employment share near the EU mean value of 1.49%. Whether Greece, Sweden, and Italy really drop so far back compared to the Statistical Definition of Sport discussed in the above paragraph can only be answered when national IOTs-S are available for them.

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