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DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker

This page brings together all documents relating to the Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT).

From:
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Department for Business and Trade
Published
3 September 2013
Last updated
13 December 2024 — See all updates

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.

Updates to this page

Published 3 September 2013
Last updated 13 December 2024 + show all updates

  1. Published the DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker: technical report, Winter 2023 to Summer 2024.

  2. Added DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker: Summer 2024.

  3. Added DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker: Spring 2024.

  4. DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker: Winter 2023 published.

  5. DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker: Summer 2023 published.

  6. Our user survey on requirements for the new Public Attitudes Tracker contract has closed.

  7. We would like your views to help inform our requirements for the new Public Attitudes Tracker contract. Please respond to our survey by 1 September 2023.

  8. Added DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker: Spring 2023.

  9. Collection page updated to include Winter 2022 Public Attitudes Tracker

  10. Autumn 2022 edition of the publication linked to collection page

  11. The collection page has been updated to link to the latest edition of the publication

  12. Updates to collection page and link to latest edition of publication

  13. Updating to link to latest release of the publication

  14. We have added the results from the Autumn 2021 survey.

  15. We have added the 'BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Developments Summer 2021' document.

  16. Updating to include link to latest edition of the publication

  17. We have added the results from Wave 36.

  18. We have added the results from Wave 35.

  19. We have added the results from Wave 34.

  20. We have added the results from Wave 33.

  21. Link to wave 32 of the Public Attitudes Tracker added

  22. We have added the results of Wave 31 of the Public Attitudes Tracker.

  23. BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker Wave 30 added.

  24. BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker Wave 29 added.

  25. Public Attitudes Tracker Wave 28 added.

  26. Public Attitudes Tracker Wave 26 published.

  27. PAT Wave 25 published.

  28. Public Attitudes Tracker Wave 24 published.

  29. Public Attitudes Tracker: Wave 23 published

  30. Wave 22 published.

  31. Wave 21.

  32. Wave 20 published.

  33. Public Attitudes Tracking Survey: Wave 19 published

  34. Wave 18.

  35. Wave 17 results added

  36. Latest data from Wave 16 published

  37. Public Attitudes Tracker wave 15 released

  38. Public Attitudes Tracker wave 14 released

  39. Latest survey published.

  40. Latest survey findings published.

  41. First published.

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