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United Kingdom Health and Lifestyle Survey 1991-1992 - UK Data Service

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS2): Seven-Year Follow-Up, 1991-1992
Provider 
UK Data Service
Microdata access: Register
Geography 
United Kingdom (GBR)
England, Scotland, Wales
Coverage type 
Subnational
Time period covered 
09/1991 - 10/1992
Series or system 
United Kingdom - Great Britain Health and Lifestyle Survey
Data type
Survey:
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Longitudinal
Summary 

The Great Britain Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS) was conducted to assess self-reported health, measured health, cognitive function, psychological wellbeing, and lifestyle of adults in all areas of Great Britain. The principal aim of the 1991-1992 survey, the second wave, was to examine the changes in health and circumstance of the surviving respondents.

HALS2 obtained 5,352 face-to-face interviews and 3,871 self-completed questionnaires from the remaining population sampled in HALS1. A total of 4,483 people received a home visit from a nurse to measure height, weight, blood pressure, respiratory function, and salivary cotinine. The nurse also carried out simple cognitive function tests.

The survey covered sociodemographic background, dietary habits, exercise and leisure, alcohol consumption, smoking, and beliefs and attitudes about disease and health.

Keywords 
Agriculture, Alcohol use, Allergies, Anthropometry, Assets, Asthma, Birth control pills, Blood disorders, Blood pressure, Body mass index, COPD, Cancers, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Chronic kidney diseases, Chronic respiratory diseases, Cough, Crime, Diabetes, Diet, Digestive diseases, Disability, Drug consumption, Education, Employment, Endocrine disorders, Epilepsy, Ethnicity, FFQ, Family composition, Family size, Fatigue, Fish, Fruits and vegetables, Gout, Health care personnel, Health care use, Health literacy, Health status, Hearing loss, Height, Home care, Hospitals, Household deaths, Housing conditions, Hypertension, Income, Inguinal and femoral hernia, Ischemic heart disease, Leisure activities, Limited mobility, Lower respiratory infections, Marital status, Medical education, Medical tests, Medicines, Mental and behavioral disorders, Mental health symptoms, Migraine, Military service, Musculoskeletal diseases, Neurological conditions, Obesity, Occupations, Osteoporosis, Pain, Pap smears, Parental survival, Peptic ulcer disease, Physical activity, Pregnancy, Processed foods, Respiratory function tests, Rheumatic heart disease, Rheumatoid arthritis, Sanitation, Secondhand smoke, Sense organ diseases, Skin diseases, Sleep, Stroke, Tobacco smoking, Trachea, bronchus, and lung cancers, Tuberculosis, Unemployment, Unipolar depressive disorders, Urinary diseases, Vision loss, Weight, Working conditions
GHDx Entry last modified on: Mar 3, 2022