Community Life Survey and Taking Part Survey 2017-18: Focus on volunteering by age and gender
This publication expands upon the 2017-18 Community Life Survey and Taking Part Survey statistical releases with a focus on Volunteering by age and gender.
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This release provides further analysis on volunteering using data from both the Community Life Survey and the Taking Part Survey, both commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
The Community Life Survey provides official statistics on issues that are important to encouraging social action and empowering communities.
The Taking Part Survey has run since 2005 and is a key evidence source for DCMS. It is a continuous face to face household survey of adults aged 16 and over in England and children aged 5 to 15 years old. The Taking Part Survey provides national statistics on estimates of engagement with the arts, heritage, museums and libraries.
This release focuses on findings about volunteering collected through the surveys, in particular providing additional breakdowns by age and gender.
Period covered:
April 2017 to March 2018
Pre-release access
The document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release. 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.
Last updated 3 September 2019 + show all updates
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A small number of figures in chapter 3 of the report and table 3 in the accompanying tables were updated 3rd September 2019 to correct for a coding error in the underlying data.
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