Art and Culture

London’s first Cultural Infrastructure Map brings together new research and information that has previously not existed in one place. It plots the location of cultural infrastructure and enables the user to view it alongside useful contextual data. This page contains cultural infrastructure data sets collected in the spring and summer of 2022 and published in 2023. Audits of facilities...

London’s first Cultural Infrastructure Map brings together new research and information that has previously not existed in one place. It plots the location of cultural infrastructure and enables the user to view it alongside useful contextual data. This page contains cultural infrastructure data sets published in 2019. The data shown on the live map is more recent and can be found...

The Mayor of London committed to developing a London Wellbeing and Sustainability Measure in his 2021 manifesto. This was to help measure London’s success as a place to live and work for all its residents. It would counteract the fact that, for years, London’s success has been mostly measured only in terms of its material wealth.  After a comprehensive and thorough development...

The Mayor of London committed to developing a London Wellbeing and Sustainability Measure in his 2021 manifesto. This was to help measure London’s success as a place to live and work for all its residents. It would counteract the fact that, for years, London’s success has been mostly measured only in terms of its material wealth.  GLA City Intelligence led the...

The Mayor of London has placed a high priority on improving social integration, equality, diversity and inclusion, economic fairness and food security across the city. Recognising the need for better evidence in these areas to ensure that policy and programmes have maximum impact, the GLA conducted the Survey of Londoners in 2018-19, an online and paper self-completion survey of adults aged...

The Taking Part survey is a continuous face to face household survey of adults aged 16 and over in England (and children aged 5 to 15 years old). The survey provides evidence for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) for measuring engagement with the cultural sectors in England.  This report summarises the results from the 2019/20 adult survey...

The Community Engagement team at the Greater London Authority (GLA) commissioned this report to identify and examine past and present projects which involve collecting Londoners experiences of COVID-19 through a variety of creative and non-traditional materials.     The purpose of the report is to:  provide an overview of projects and activities which record Londoners COVID-19 stories and experiences.  outline who...

This bespoke geodemographic classification maps the geography of digital consumers within England by combining over seventy measures selected from survey and lifestyle data, alongside census and infrastructure performance statistics. This project forms an output of an ESRC funded PhD and research project, both undertaken at the University of Liverpool. This project aims to assist the proling of customer databases, targeted...

Local Authority level tourist spend estimates (£ millions). Indicitive borough level day visitor estimates for 2007 were derived from the LDA’s own experimental London level day visitor estimates. As such the borough level day visitor estimates should be treated with caution and the 2007 day visitor estimates are not comparable with those from previous years. They are intended only to give...

The Mayor has a role to play in leading, shaping and responding to changes in London through the work of the GLA group. Inclusive London: the Mayor's equality, diversity and inclusion strategy sets out how he will help address the inequalities, barriers and discrimination experienced by groups protected by the Equality Act 2010, as well as wider issues. These include...