Community and Engagement Survey: October to December 2025
This publication will provide quarterly results on how adults engage with DCMS sectors and their community, covering the period October to December 2025.
Applies to England
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May 2026: Figures for this release have been revised following the identification of minor weighting and data processing errors. The impact is small and further details can be found in the data tables.
The Community pathway data tables in this release have been produced using the methodology of the Community Life Survey (CLS) to allow for robust comparability with the CLS time-series. This methodology differs from the approach used to produce the Engagement pathway data tables and the Participation Survey. We intend to reproduce the Community pathway data tables and the Community Life Survey time series using the Engagement pathway methodology in future to align the entire survey with a consistent methodological approach.
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.
The CES provides nationally representative estimates of physical and digital engagement with the arts, heritage, museums & galleries, libraries and archives, as well as engagement with tourism, major events, live sports and digital, and聽tracks the latest trends and developments across areas related to social action and empowering communities.
- Released:聽29 April 2026.
- Period covered:聽October to December 2025.
- Geographic coverage: National, ITL2 area and Combined Authority for England.
- Next release date:聽July 2026 (quarterly data covering January to March 2026, and annual data for 2025/26)
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 statistician for this release聽is Amie Hayes. For enquiries on this release, contact聽cesurvey@dcms.gov.uk
Updates to this page
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Notice of revision for Change Note 31/07/2026: Based on user feedback, we have included additional estimates for participation in civic activism in the main Quarter 1 data tables. We have also published an additional set of data tables containing headline Community and Engagement Survey variables split by ITL2 and Combined Authority level geography. The shorthand used in the data tables has also been updated to align with ONS guidance. These changes are clearly explained in the notes page accompanying the data tables.
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Notice of revision for change note 28/05/2026: Figures for this release have been revised following the identification of minor weighting and data processing errors. The impact of these corrections is minimal, with the vast majority of changes altering estimates by less than one percentage point. However, some significance levels have changed, and further detail can be found within the 鈥楥orrections鈥� tab of the data tables. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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Informing users of an error in the weighting used to produce these quarterly estimates, that we plan to revise the tables in May 2026 and in the meantime, for users to use the data tables with some caution.
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