Health and Lifestyle Survey 1984/85
This appears to be one of the first lifestyle surveys conducted in the UK. It
was funded by the Health Promotion Research Trust and conducted by Cambridge
University and Social and Community Planning Research (SCPR) between August 1984
and July 1985.The principal aims of the study was:
- to investigate, in a representative national sample, the four
habits or behaviours most often implicated in studies of ill health
smoking, alcohol consumption, diet and physical exercise
- to consider the association of these and other components of
lifestyle, both singly and in combination, with various aspects of
health in the individual
- to investigate whether health behaviour in these four areas of
life reflect the individuals’ beliefs about attitudes towards, and
experience of health
- to examine the distribution of a number of simple measures of
physiological status, and seek for associations between these
measures and lifestyles and reported health
- to examine the distribution of measures of cognitive function,
personality and psychiatric status, and consider associations
between these and lifestyles and reported health
The sample for the survey comprised 12,672 addresses selected from the English,
Welsh and Scottish Electoral Registers using a multi-stage sampling. In total,
9,003 individuals were interviewed – a response rate of 73.5%.A copy of the
User Manual from the survey is available. |
