DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-9176-3
title: Children's People and Nature Survey for England, 2021-2025: Secure Access
title: Children's People and Nature Survey for England, 2021-
title: C-PaNS

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;span&gt;Children’s People and Nature Survey&lt;/span&gt; (C-PaNS) provides information on how children and young people experience and think about the natural environment. Each year, the survey samples around 4,000 children and young people aged 8 -15 years across two survey waves, one in term time and one in holiday time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Waves 5 and 6 of the C-PaNS ran between 
the 16 and 23 August 2023 (during the school holidays) and 18 and 26 
September 2023 (during term-time). Waves 7 and 8 ran between the 14 and 25 August 2024 (during the school holidays) and the 16 September and 2 October 2024 (during the term-time). Waves 9 and 10 ran between 13 and 27 August 2025 (school holidays) and 18 September and 1 October 2025 (term-time).These data are alongside data from earlier waves already published.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Different versions of the C-PaNS are available from the 
UK Data Archive under Open Access (SN 9174) conditions, End User Licence
 (SN 9175), and Secure Access (SN 9176).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Secure Access version
 includes the same data as the End User Licence version, but includes 
more detailed variables including:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;age as a continuous variable&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;income (all categories)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;number of people living in household as a continuous variable&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ethnicity&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;disability&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;home geography variables, including local authority district and urban/rural area&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;open answers for thematic analysis in CS_Q14 and CS_Q15&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Open Access version includes the same data as the End User Licence version, but does not include the following variables:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;age band&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;number of people living in household (Top coded to ‘6 and over’)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;access to private garden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;income (top coded to £50,000+)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;gender&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;places withing walking distance from home &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Researchers
 are advised to review the Open Access and/or the End User Licence 
versions to determine if these are adequate prior to ordering the Secure
 Access version.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Accredited 
official statistics are called National Statistics in the Statistics and
 Registration Service Act 2007. An explanation can be found on the &lt;a href="https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/accredited-official-statistics/"&gt;Office for Statistics Regulation website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Natural
 England's statistical practice is regulated by the Office for 
Statistics Regulation (OSR). OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, 
quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics that all 
producers of official statistics should adhere to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; These 
accredited official statistics were independently reviewed by the Office
 for Statistics Regulation in January 2023. They comply with the 
standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice 
for Statistics and should be labelled ‘accredited official statistics’.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users are welcome to contact Natural England directly at &lt;a href="mailto:people_and_nature@naturalengland.org.uk"&gt;people_and_nature@naturalengland.org.uk&lt;/a&gt; with any comments about how they meet these standards. Alternatively, users can contact OSR by emailing &lt;a href="mailto:regulation@statistics.gov.uk"&gt;regulation@statistics.gov.uk&lt;/a&gt; or via the OSR website.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since
 the latest review by the Office for Statistics Regulation, Natural 
England have continued to comply with the Code of Practice for 
Statistics, and have made the following improvements:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Published a development plan with timetables for future work, which will be updated annually&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ensured that users have opportunities to contribute to development planning through their biannual Research User Group&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enabled wider access to the data by publishing raw data sets through the UK Data Service&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Provided users with guidance on how statistics from their products can be compared with those produced in the devolved nations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Published guidance on the differences between PaNS and MENE&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Improved
 estimates of the percentage of people visiting nature in the previous 
14 days by reducing the amount of respondents answering ‘don’t know’.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;These data are available in Excel, SPSS, as well as Open Document Spreadsheet (ODS) formats.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;For the third edition (January 2026), data for Wave 9 (during the school holidays in 2025) and Wave 10 (during the term-time in 2025) were added to the study.&lt;/p&gt;
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