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The Health Survey for England is a time-series dataset of the HSE from 1991-2009 and is a result of a project funded by the University of Manchester to examine obesity. More information about the HSE is available from the Health Survey for England webpages including information on the sample design, questionnaire and variables for each year of the survey. The original HSE datasets for 1991 to 2009 are held at the UK Data Archive under GN 33261.

Main Topics:

The main topics include obesity, socio-economic status variables (e.g education, social class and income). Classification variables: ethnicity, sex, age etc, health-related variables: smoking, drinking, blood pressure, cholesterol, sample design variables: Government Office Region, physical activity, social capital.

multi-stage stratified and clustered sample. Sample design varies between years

Face-to-face interview

Self-completion

Physical measurements