Taking Part: the National Survey of Culture, Leisure and Sport, 2013-2014; Adult and Child Data

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P>The <span style="font-style: italic;">Taking Part</span> survey collects data on many aspects of leisure, culture and sport in England, as well as an in-depth range of socio-demographic information on respondents. The survey is commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in partnership with three of its non-departmental public bodies (Sport England, Arts Council England and English Heritage). The survey was first commissioned in 2005 as a face-to-face household survey of adults (16+) in England. Since then it has run annually and has also been developed to include further elements, including a child element and a longitudinal element.<br>
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Further information can be found on the Gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/taking-part" title="Taking Part" target="_blank">Taking Part</a> web pages.<br>
<br><br>For <i>Taking Part, 2013-2014</i>, also known as Year 9 of the continuous survey, 10,355 adults and 829 children aged 11-15 were interviewed. Information was also collected from parents or guardians of 1,040 children aged 5-10. Interviews were conducted face-to-face in home by specially trained interviewers working on behalf of TNS BMRB using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI).<br><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>Main topics covered by the survey include: the arts, museums and galleries, libraries, archives, heritage, sport, volunteering and demographics.<br>
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In order to preserve confidentiality, variables relating to census output area, postcode sector, local authority, and primary sampling units have been removed from the UK Data Archive End User Licence version. A Special Licence version that contains more detailed data, including some of the variables listed above, is available under SN 7710.<br>