Community Life Survey
This series brings together all the releases of the Community Life Survey.
The Community Life Survey is a key evidence source for understanding more about community engagement, volunteering and social cohesion, sampling adults (aged 16+) throughout England. The Department for Culture, Media & Sport took on responsibility for publishing results from the Community Life survey (CLS) for 2016-17 onwards, after it was commissioned by the Cabinet Office in 2012. Previous data and questionnaires for the CLS from 2012 until 2016 are available at Community Life Survey 2012-13 to 2015-16.
The CLS moved to a self-completion online and paper mixed method approach from 2016-17 onwards, with an end to the previous face-to-face method.
The survey is currently run by Verian (previously Kantar Public) on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media & Sport.
If you have received a letter inviting you to take part in the survey please click here for more information.
Update to the Community Life Survey
DCMS ran and responded to a public consultation about DCMS바카라 사이트� social surveys in 2024. We invited views from all interested stakeholders in their current use of the Community Life Survey and Participation Survey and priorities for future, ensuring that meeting user needs and achieving value for money remains at the forefront of any survey design.
Following the consultation we have issued an invite to tender for a combined DCMS survey to commence in October 2025. We are intending to run a joint survey in practice, while keeping the content for each of the Community Life Survey and Participation Survey broadly separate. All respondents will be asked a series of questions relating to demographics, before being routed to answer questions on either the Community Life Survey or the Participation Survey. We expect data for the Community Life Survey will be available at local authority level, in partnership with MHCLG. We expect data for the Participation Survey will be available at ITL2 (county) level. We expect data from these surveys to be published at the same time. We are intending to collect Participation Survey data for April to September 2025 separately, to enable the time series to be continued without a break.
The contract is currently out for tender and we will provide further updates once a contract has been awarded.
Ad-hoc statistical releases
A list of CLS ad-hoc statistical releases that have not been included in our standard publications is available here.
Community Life Survey: Annual Statistical Releases
Community Life Survey: Quarterly Statistical Releases
Community Life Survey: Focus Reports
Community Life Survey: Special Statistical Releases
Community Life Survey: Additional Methodology Reports
Community Life Survey: User engagement
Updates to this page
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Added section for Update to the Community Life Survey which details the combined social survey.
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The 2023/24 annual publication and January to March 2024 quarterly release have been added to the collection.
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The October to December 2023 statistical release has been uploaded on 8 May 2024.
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DCMS is considering options for the structure of our social surveys in the future, ensuring that meeting user needs and achieving value for money remains at the forefront of any survey design. We invite views from all interested stakeholders in your current use of the Participation Survey and Community Life Survey and your priorities for future design. A link to the consultation has been added to this page.
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Added Community Life Survey 2021/22.
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Added a link to the most recent Community Life Survey 2020/21 web page.
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10 December 2020 Added the Focus on Loneliness 2019-20 report, the headline findings report from the Community Life COVID-19 Re-contact Survey 2020, and the main findings report from the Community Life COVID-19 Re-contact Survey 2020
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Publication of a focus report on loneliness.
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First published.