Summary information
Study title
Health Education Monitoring Survey (HEMS), 1996
Creator
Office for National Statistics, Social Survey Division
Study number / PID
3781 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-3781-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The 1996 Health Education Monitoring Survey (HEMS) was the second in a series of surveys designed to measure progress towards achieving a set of health promotion indicators relating to health-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviour (developed by the Health Education Authority) of a sample of adults aged 16-74. Estimates from this survey were to be compared with those produced by the 1995 survey to see whether any change had taken place.
Main Topics:
Household characteristics; socio-demographic characteristics of respondents; general health; behaviour in the sun; smoking; drinking; physical activity; nutrition; drug use; sexual health.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/05/1996 - 01/06/1996
Country
England
Time dimension
Repeated cross-sectional study
the 1995, 1996 and 1998 surveys were cross-sectional surveys. It was the intention that annual or biennial surveys would be done until the year 2000.
Analysis unit
National
Adults
Individuals
Universe
Adults aged 16-74 years living in private households in England.
Sampling procedure
Multi-stage stratified random sample
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Face-to-face interview
Self-completion
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1997
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
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