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Community Life Survey

This series brings together all the releases of the Community Life Survey.

The Community Life Survey is a key evidence source for understanding more about community engagement, volunteering and social cohesion, sampling adults (aged 16+) throughout England.The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport took on responsibility for publishing results from the Community Life survey (CLS) for 2016-17 onwards, after it was commissioned by the Cabinet Office in 2012. Previous data and questionnaires for the CLS from 2012 until 2016 are available at Community Life Survey 2012-13 to 2015-16.

The CLS moved to a self-completion online and paper mixed method approach from 2016-17 onwards, with an end to the previous face-to-face method.

The survey is currently run by Kantar on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.

If you have received a letter inviting you to take part in the survey please click here for more information.

Ad-hoc statistical releases

A list of CLS ad-hoc statistical releases that have not been included in our standard publications is available here.

Community Life Survey: Statistical Releases

Community Life Survey: Focus Reports

Community Life Survey: Special Statistical Releases

Community Life Survey: Additional Methodology Reports

Community Life Survey: User engagement

Published 25 July 2017
Last updated 28 February 2023 + show all updates
  1. Added Community Life Survey 2021/22.

  2. Added a link to the most recent Community Life Survey 2020/21 web page.

  3. 10 December 2020 Added the Focus on Loneliness 2019-20 report, the headline findings report from the Community Life COVID-19 Re-contact Survey 2020, and the main findings report from the Community Life COVID-19 Re-contact Survey 2020

  4. Publication of a focus report on loneliness.

  5. First published.