DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker
This page brings together all documents relating to the Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT).
This triannual survey collects data on public awareness, behaviours and attitudes relating to the department’s policy areas.
Up to Winter 2022, the Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT) was conducted by the former Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). From Spring 2023 onwards, following departmental restructuring, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) is responsible for the PAT.
From Summer 2023, we have reduced the frequency of the survey from 4 to 3 times a year, dropping the Autumn wave which largely covered topics that do not fall within the remit of DESNZ.
In response to feedback, we have added a summary of questions covered by the PAT since Autumn 2021.
Methodology changes
The data time series was restarted in Autumn 2021 following COVID with a new methodology using address-based online surveying (ABOS), and the results since then have been divided into topic areas. See BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Developments Summer 2021 for more details of the Autumn 2021 changes.
Due to the impacts of COVID-19, Wave 34 to Wave 37 data was collected via an online panel.
In earlier waves data was collected through face-to-face in-home interviews.
Contact us
If you have questions or you would like further information, please contact: PAT@energysecurity.gov.uk.
DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker: latest publications
BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker
BEIS updated the survey in 2018:
- to cover the full remit of the department’s priorities including consumer markets and employment rights
- increasing the sample size from approximately 2,000 to 4,000 users to allow a more meaningful breakdown of data
- to produce more engaging outputs
Public Attitudes Tracker Review
BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: energy and climate change
On 14 July 2016, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) merged with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), to form the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS): the survey remained focused on attitudes to energy and climate change.
DECC Public Attitudes Tracker: energy and climate change
In March 2012 the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) launched a tracking survey to understand and monitor public attitudes to the department’s main business priorities.