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The Health Survey for England 2011: Teaching Dataset is based on the Health Survey for England, 2011 (available from the UK Data Archive under SN 7260) and constitutes real data which are used by the government and are behind many headlines. The teaching dataset contains fewer variables and has been subjected to certain simplifications and additions for the purpose of learning and teaching. The main differences are: the number of variables has been reducedweighting has been simplifieda reduced codebook is providedFurther information is available in the study documentation (below) which includes a dataset user guide.

Main Topics:

The main topics covered are:socio-demographic variablesbody, weight and blood pressure measurements illnessescigarette smoking

Multi-stage stratified random sample

See documentation for SN 7260 for details of HSE sampling, and the documentation for this study for details of sampling used for the teaching dataset.

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

The HSE is collected by face-to-face interview, self-completion questionnaire, clinical measurements, diaries, physical measurements and CAPI but the teaching dataset has been created by simplifying the original data.