Community and Engagement Survey 2025/26: supplementary documents
Documents accompanying the findings of the Community and Engagement Survey in 2025/26.
Applies to England
Documents
Details
For the summary report of all headline findings for this publication, or to find the detailed statistics with full demographic and geographic breakdowns for the topics covered in this survey, please return to the main landing page for this release.
罢丑别听Community and Engagement Survey (CES)聽is a continuous push to web survey of people aged 16 and over in England,听designed to explore how people across England engage with their community and with culture, media and live sport and allows respondents鈥� views to be heard on a range of issues affecting their local area. In October 2025, the Community and Engagement Survey replaced DCMS鈥櫬�Participation Survey听补苍诲听Community Life Survey.
- Released:聽31 July 2026.
- Period covered:聽October 2025 to March 2026 (some engagement data included in this release was collected between April 2025 and September 2025 through the Participation Survey).
- Geographic coverage: National, regional and local authority level data for England.
- Next release date:聽September 2026 (quarterly data covering April to June 2026)
Additional information
罢丑别听Community and Engagement Survey聽is asked of people aged 16 and over in England. Currently there is no harmonised survey or set of questions within the devolved administrations of the UK. Data on聽many areas of the Community and Engagement Survey聽are available in the聽,听听补苍诲听.
The pre-release access document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release of聽Community and Engagement Survey聽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.
Our statistical practice is regulated by the OSR. OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the聽聽that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.
You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about how we meet these standards by emailing聽evidence@dcms.gov.uk. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing聽regulation@statistics.gov.uk聽or via the聽.
The responsible analyst for this release聽is Dea Begaj. For enquiries on this release, contact聽cesurvey@dcms.gov.uk