Participation Survey: January to March 2023 publication
The results of the January to March 2023 quarter of the Participation Survey.
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30 November: We have updated all breakdowns by disability status in our annual publications. Quarterly data tables have been updated to clarify exactly what the data represents, i.e. respondents who said ‘yes’ when asked the question ‘Do you have any physical or mental health conditions or illnesses lasting or expected to last 12 months or more?’. Please see here for further details.
The Participation Survey has run since October 2021 and is the key evidence source on engagement for DCMS. It is a continuous push-to-web household survey of adults aged 16 and over in England.
The Participation Survey provides reliable estimates of physical and digital engagement with the arts, heritage, museums & galleries, and libraries, as well as engagement with tourism, major events, digital sectors, and live sports.
- Released: 20 July 2023
- Period covered: January to March 2023
- Geographic coverage: National and Regional level data for England.
- Next release date: September 2023
The pre-release access list above contains the ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release of Participation Survey data. In line with best-practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours. Details on the pre-release access arrangements for this dataset are available in the accompanying material.
This release is published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Statistics (2018), as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. The Authority has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area.
Following on from feedback, we plan to remove the demographic tables from the Participation Survey quarterly publications, from September 2023. We would continue to include the demographic tables in the annual publications. If you are regularly using the quarterly demographic tables and this proposed change would cause you significant issues, please get in touch with DCMS Survey team participationsurvey@dcms.gov.uk, outlining which particular breakdowns you would like us to prioritise, by the end of August 2023.
We are always interested in hearing your views on the Participation Survey. The latest publication releases include data to a higher level of granularity, which should aid those looking to conduct more in-depth analysis. Please contact us with any suggestions or feedback by email at participationsurvey@dcms.gov.uk.
The responsible statistician for this release is Kamila Verikaite. For any enquiries on this release, please contact the Participation Survey email inbox.
Last updated 30 November 2023 + show all updates
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30 November - We have updated all breakdowns by disability status in our annual publications to align with the Government Statistical Service harmonised standard. We have not revised the data in our quarterly datasets. Instead, we changed the way we have labelled the data to 'long lasting health condition or illness’. The actual data has not changed but the label makes it clearer that the data represents respondents who had said yes to having any physical or mental health conditions or illnesses lasting or expected to last for 12 months or more. Please note this is a different measure to ‘disabled/non-disabled’, which are available in the annual data tables. For further information, please see the update on the Participation Survey website. This can be found on our 2022/23 annual publication page.
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