Participation Survey: July to September 2023 statistical release
The results of the Participation Survey covering the July to September 2023 quarter.
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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 sectors, and live sports.
- Released: 20 December 2023
- Period covered: July to September 2023
- Geographic coverage: National level data for England.
- Next release date: March 2024
The pre-release access list above contains the 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.
We are always interested in hearing your views on the Participation Survey. The latest publication releases include data to a higher level of granularity, which should aid those looking to conduct more in-depth analysis. Please contact us with any suggestions or feedback by emailing [email protected].
The responsible statistician for this release is Ella Bentin. For any enquiries on this release, please email [email protected].
Updates to this page
Published 20 December 2023Last updated 24 July 2024 + show all updates
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24th July 2024: We have updated the figures for “engaged with libraries physically or digitally”, the figures for “engaged with museum or gallery physically or digitally”, the 22/23 figures for the option “Don’t know” to the question “How many of these events were professional sports where the participants were being paid”, and removed three erroneously derived figures in Table_1b relating to digital arts activities. All revisions have been noted in the corresponding tables.
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We have corrected the name of tables 5a and 5b from “Adults' engagement with live sports in the last 12 months” to “Adults' engagement with live sports in the last 6 months” in the contents page.
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First published.