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About

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp Taking Part Survey has run since 2005 and is the key evidence source for DCMS. It is a continuous face to face household survey of adults aged 16 and over in England and children aged 5 to 15 years old.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp Taking Part Survey provides reliable national estimates of engagement with the arts, heritage, museums and libraries. It carries the National Statistics badge, meaning that it meets the highest standards of statistical quality.

Released

28 September 2017

Period covered

April 2016 to March 2017

Geographic coverage

National level data for England

Next release date

A series of “Taking Part, Focus on…� reports will be published in October 2017. Each ‘short story� in this series will look at a specific topic in more detail, providing more in-depth analysis of the 2016/17 Taking Part data.

Summary

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp Taking Part Survey provides reliable national estimates of child engagement with the arts, heritage, museums, archives, libraries and sport. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp latest data cover the period April 2016 to March 2017.

Statistical worksheets

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýappse spreadsheets contain the data and sample sizes to support the material in this release.

Previous releases

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp previous child Taking Part annual release was published on 21 July 2016. A series of short story reports was published on 26 April 2017.

Pre-release access

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release of Taking Part 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.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp UK Statistics Authority

This release is published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (2009), as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp 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.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp latest figures in this release are based on data that was first published on 28 September 2017. Details on the pre-release access arrangements for this dataset are available in the accompanying material for the previous release.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp responsible statistician for this release is Alison Reynolds. For enquiries on this release, contact Alison Reynolds on 020 7211 6776 or Olivia Christophersen on 020 7211 2377.

For any further queries contact them or the Taking Part team at [email protected].