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.
DCMS is considering options for the structure of our social surveys in the future, ensuring that meeting user needs and achieving value for money remains at the forefront of any survey design. We invite views from all interested stakeholders in your current use of the Participation Survey and Community Life Survey and your priorities for future design.
Any changes would not impact the 2023/24 or 2024/25 Participation Survey or Community Life Survey. A summary of the responses to this consultation will be provided in a published response within 12 weeks of the consultation closing.
We encourage you to respond to this consultation by completing the online survey. If you require a paper version please contact us at participationsurvey@dcms.gov.uk or communitylifesurvey@dcms.gov.uk. The consultation will close at 11:59pm on 23 May 2024.
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
Last updated 29 February 2024 + show all updates
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DCMS is considering options for the structure of our social surveys in the future, ensuring that meeting user needs and achieving value for money remains at the forefront of any survey design. We invite views from all interested stakeholders in your current use of the Participation Survey and Community Life Survey and your priorities for future design. A link to the consultation has been added to this page.
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Added Community Life Survey 2021/22.
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Added a link to the most recent Community Life Survey 2020/21 web page.
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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
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Publication of a focus report on loneliness.
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First published.