Participation Survey: October to December 2021 report
The results of the October to December 2021 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 and Live Sports.
- Released - 20 April 2022
- Period covered - October to December 2021
- Geographic coverage - National and Regional level data for England.
- Next release date – July 2022 (Annual for 2021/22 and Quarterly for Jan-Mar 2022)
The pre-release access document above contains a list of 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.
The responsible statistician for this release is Rishi Vaidya. For enquiries on this release, contact participationsurvey@dcms.gov.uk.
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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The Participation Survey October to December 2021 Technical Report has been moved to this page.
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Some of the data used to produce this report has been revised since initial publication, due to a small change in the way we calculate confidence intervals. Please use the revised Oct-Dec 21 data tables or annual data tables or annual report, rather than the data on this report, for our latest estimates.
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Correction 19/5/2022 – The phrase “Respondents from the North West (10%) were less likely to engage with the physical library services than respondents from other regions (12-18%).” was incorrectly included in the Library chapter. This has now been removed.
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