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For its sixth edition in 2018, the Department for Prospective Studies, Statistics and Documentation (DEPS-DOC) extended its “Survey into French Cultural Practices” to the French overseas territories. Since it was first published in 1973, this survey has been one of France’s key instruments for monitoring cultural behaviours. It serves as an authoritative basis for numerous thematic, monographic and territorial surveys and is regularly the subject of academic research. With the scope of the survey extended to include French overseas territories, the 2018 survey is the first to provide an analysis of cultural practices in these territories and to offer the possibility of regional analyses. This survey was conducted in La Réunion by means of face-to-face interviews with a sample group of over 1,500 people aged 15 and over, between February 2019 and February 2020. The results therefore cover cultural practices in La Réunion prior to the COVID19 lockdown.