Place Survey 2008

People living in local council areas (survey was administered by local authorities). 518,772 respondents living in 329 councils in England. One of the largest surveys in Europe.The survey supplies the data that informed 18 National Indicators across six Government departments. Main topics included, Satisfaction with the local area, satisfaction with and use of local public services, satisfaction with the level of information relating to public services, satisfaction with local decision-making, volunteering, involvement in decision-making groups, attitudes towards the level of respect and consideration shown amongst members of the local community and from local public services, satisfaction with community safety, characteristics of the respondent and household. Some similar questions in Scottish Household Survey.

Citation for this study: Department for Communities and Local Government, Audit Commission. (2010). Place Survey, 2008. [data collection]. UK Data Service. SN: 6519, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-6519-1.

Time

2008 - 2008 (Other)

One off Survey - originally intended to be biennial

Dataset Quality

Technical report 'Place survey manual' available which outlines the methodology and data quality issues from the UK Data Service link above.

Numeric data generated from survey - Audit Commission extracted a random sample of 6,000 addresses of adult residents for each local authority from the Post Office Small Users Address File. Local authorities were instructed to randomly draw from this sample to meet a minimum required sample of 1,100

Dataset Access and Use

Free to download from the Data UK website.

Supportive of data use for research

Geography

Coverage: England

Units: Local authority

Resources