DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-9174-1
title: Children's People and Nature Survey for England, 2021-2023: Open Access
title: Children's People and Nature Survey for England, 2021-
title: C-PaNS

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;span&gt;Children&#8217;s People and Nature Survey&lt;/span&gt;&#160;(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 &#10;the 16 and 23 August 2023 (during the school holidays) and 18 and 26 &#10;September 2023 (during term-time).&#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Different versions of the C-PaNS are available from the &#10;UK Data Archive under Open Access (SN 9174) conditions, End User Licence&#10; (SN 9175), and Secure Access (SN 9176).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Secure Access version&#10; includes the same data as the End User Licence version, but includes &#10;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 &#8216;6 and over&#8217;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;access to private garden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;income (top coded to &#163;50,000+)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;gender&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;places withing walking distance from home&#160;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Researchers&#10; are advised to review the Open Access and/or the End User Licence &#10;versions to determine if these are adequate prior to ordering the Secure&#10; Access version.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Accredited &#10;official statistics are called National Statistics in the Statistics and&#10; 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&#10; England's statistical practice is regulated by the Office for &#10;Statistics Regulation (OSR). OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, &#10;quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics that all &#10;producers of official statistics should adhere to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; These &#10;accredited official statistics were independently reviewed by the Office&#10; for Statistics Regulation in January 2023. They comply with the &#10;standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice &#10;for Statistics and should be labelled &#8216;accredited official statistics&#8217;.&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&#10; the latest review by the Office for Statistics Regulation, Natural &#10;England have continued to comply with the Code of Practice for &#10;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&#10; estimates of the percentage of people visiting nature in the previous &#10;14 days by reducing the amount of respondents answering &#8216;don&#8217;t know&#8217;.&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;br&gt;