Community Life Survey, 2020-2021

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Community Life Survey (CLS) is a household survey conducted in England, tracking the latest trends and developments across areas key to encouraging social action and empowering communities, including: volunteering and charitable giving; views about the local area; community cohesion and belonging; community empowerment and participation; influencing local decisions and affairs; and subjective well-being and loneliness. The CLS was first commissioned by the Cabinet Office in 2012. From 2016-17, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) took over responsibility for publishing results. During 2020, the DCMS also commissioned the Community Life COVID-19 Re-contact Survey (CLRS) (SN 8781) to provide data on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected volunteering, charitable giving, social cohesion, wellbeing and loneliness in England. BackgroundUp to 2015-16, the survey used a face-to-face methodology. Following thorough testing (experimental online versions of the survey were released for 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16), the CLS moved online from 2016-17 onwards, with an end to the previous face-to-face method. The survey uses a push-to-web methodology (with paper mode for those who are not digitally engaged). The survey informs and directs policy and action in these areas; to provide data of value to all users, including public bodies, external stakeholders and the public; and underpin further research and debate on building stronger communities. The Community Life Survey incorporates a small number of priority measures from the Citizenship Survey, which ran from 2001-2011, conducted by the then Department for Communities and Local Government. These measures were incorporated in the Community Life Survey so that trends in these issues could continue to be tracked over time. (The full Citizenship Survey series is held at the UK Data Archive under GNs 33347 and 33474.) Further information may be found on the GOV.UK Community Life Survey webpage.

The Community Life Survey, 2020 -2021 covers April 2020 - March 2021 and forms 'Official Statistics', meaning that it meets the high standards of quality set out by the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. Further information may be found on the GOV.UK Community Life Survey, 2020/21 webpage.

Main Topics:

The main topics include measures that are key to understanding our society and local communities such as volunteering, charitable giving, neighbourhood, civic engagement, social action and subjective well-being.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Postal survey

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2021.2019206
Related Identifier https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/factors-associated-with-loneliness-in-adults-in-england-during-the-pandemic/investigating-factors-associated-with-loneliness-amongst-adults-in-england-during-the-pandemic#conclusion
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=0e1807d628624153664a790e8e4cf260e31c565acc73a494363605ef3cd53084
Provenance
Creator Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2021
Funding Reference Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
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Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage England