Accessing a checkbox value on click in angular 2

I have this checkbox which i want to see if it checked through ngModel binding.
When i call console.log(activeCheckbox); i can see the ngmodel and its value property set to true in the console.
But when i call console.log(activeCheckbox.value); right after or seperately, the value is undefined?

Does anybody know what is happening here ?

<input #activeCheckbox="ngModel" (click)="checkIfActive(activeCheckbox)"
[disabled]="pageStatus==4" [ngModel]="premiumContententPackage.active"
name="premiumContententPackageActive" id="premiumContententPackageActive"
type="checkbox" >

checkIfActive(activeCheckbox){
console.log(activeCheckbox);
console.log(activeCheckbox.value);
}

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