Taking Part: the National Survey of Culture, Leisure and Sport, 2007-2008; Adult and Child Data: Special Licence Access

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Taking Part 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. Further information can be found on the gov.uk Taking Part web pages.

Taking Part, 2007-2008, also known as Year 3 of the continuous survey, includes 25,720 interviews conducted with adults (aged 16 or over) and 885 interviews conducted with children (aged 11-15). The survey used face-to-face computer assisted personal interviews, which take 45 minutes, on average, to complete. The sample for this survey has been randomly selected from the small-users postcode address file and only those from private households in England are included. No geographical restrictions are placed on the location of the engagement, although it must have been for the purpose of recreation or leisure, including voluntary work. Taking Part excludes involvement in sectors where the prime motivation is paid work or academic study. The exceptions to this are attendance at historic environment sites which included visits made for academic study and sports opportunities which excludes refereeing, officiating and coaching. This study is subject to restrictive Special Licence (SL) access conditions as it contains additional detailed geographic variables (Local Authorities; ACORN Group; ACORN Category; ONS Urban Rural Classification). The End User Licence (EUL) version which is the same, but excludes these detailed variables, is available from the UK Data Service under SN 6273. Users are advised to first obtain the standard EUL version of the data to see if they are sufficient for their research requirements. The SL data have more restrictive access conditions; prospective users of the SL version will need to complete an extra application form and demonstrate to the data owners exactly why they need access to the additional variables in order to get permission to use that version.

Main Topics:

Main topics covered by the survey include: the arts, museums and galleries, libraries, archives, heritage, sport, social capital, engagement in various sectors whilst growing up, volunteering, broadcasting, gambling, the Olympics, licensing laws, and demographics.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

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Face-to-face interview

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-7342-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=c4adb4605c67f301a57b4748c32f19cf9bfb593d77f7f052379f4c20eb852442
Provenance
Creator Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2013
Funding Reference Arts Council England; English Heritage; Sport England; Museums, Libraries and Archives Council; Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Rights Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use is not permitted.</p><p>Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. Users must apply for access via a Special Licence application.</p><p>Access is limited to users resident in the UK.</p>
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Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Dance; Economics; Fine Arts, Music, Theatre and Media Studies; Humanities; Music; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage England