This paper presents a study of the sports services market in Slovenia, besides the educational system, based on an analysis of several sources of public data: the income structure of sports organizations involving a sample of 8,092 organizations, the population’s consumption expenditure on sport using a representative sample and the public expenditure on sport according to reports about the realization of the national programme for sport in Slovenia. The research reveals that the total expenditure on sport in Slovenia in the studied year of 2005 amounted to 1.93% of GDP. In the structure of expenditure, the largest share of 85% is taken by private money (corporations, households), whereas public funding (state budgeting, local authorities, lottery money, EU funding) amounts to slightly less than 15%. The overall amount of expenditure was constantly rising until 2005 due to a stronger economic growth in Slovenia. Nevertheless, the amount spent on sport lags behind the increase in the population’s consumption expenditure on the so-called leisure industry, resulting in sport losing the market share within the industry. The average Slovenian household spends 2.88% of the family budget on sport, equalling EUR 496 per year. Two-thirds of these funds are spent on sports products and one-third on sports services. More and more sports services are being offered by the private sector, although the non-governmental sports sector created 70.6% of the total income of sports organizations. Left unchallenged, the weaknesses of the Slovenian sports services market could become a real obstacle to the further successful development of sport; therefore, some countermeasures to improve and form new sports services are presented in the last part of the paper.
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In a study of the excusing in Physical Education in high school sports classes, we see that the strongest indicators of the frequency of excused students in PE are gender and class; the greatest potential to excused themselves have girls and 4 year. Sports classes do not constitute a statistically significant promise for the frequent excusing. Justification for athletes does not depend on the sport they practice outside school nor the extent of training and sports performance, but the gender. Greater opportunities for more frequent excuse have boys. The most common reasons are the injuries, illness and learning for a different subject (not PE). As their peers in sport classes students during the time they are excused they often observe lessons or learn for other subjects. The article suggests measures to reduce the excusing from the PE.
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The aim of our research was to analyse the implementation of a Real Time Judging System (RTJS) . In this research, 6 volunteer international level judges evaluated male parallel bars routines from Šalamun’s memorial 2009 (World cup series B artistic gymnastics competition). The computer assisted system with a keyboard interface was used to record and display deductions from individual judges in real time. For validity assessment, the mean absolute and rank deviations of judges’ execution scores, Kendall’s W and ANOVA statistics were calculated. For consistency and reliability assessment, item-total correlations, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, intra-class correlations and Armor’s theta were calculated. The overall results in terms of consistency (Cronbach’s alpha mostly above 0.96) and reliability (Armor’s theta 0.95, intra-class correlation for single and average measures 0.77 and 0.95, respectively) were satisfactory. As compared to results of judging analysis from a previous high level competition at Universiade 2009 higher indices of individual judge bias were found. In conclusion, RTJS shows promise as an efficient system to increase the transparency and informative value of judging while maintaining the same level of reliability.
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