The Increasing Impact Of Sport In Spanish Economy.

Sport is today an increasingly widespread phenomenon and the interest in its study has outstandingly increased in the last decades, especially in the field of Economics due to the emergence of the Economy of Sport. Nonetheless, both the complexity of sport as a concept and the lack of statistical data about it make sport an element of analysis with many aspects still to be researched. This paper aims at setting up a model which will allow forecasting the evolution of sport in the future. Thus, we have obtained the so-called “GDP of sport” for the period from 1995 to 2006 (period 1995-2006). This measure reflects the share of goods and services connected with sport in national GDP. In this text, we bring forward a methodology to obtain this evolution of the GDP of sport and detail the sources consulted in order to obtain the necessary information, getting over the hurdle of the lack of statistical data already commented upon.