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The 1997 Health Education Monitoring Survey (HEMS) was a follow-up survey, conducted only with respondents from the 1996 survey who were willing to be re-interviewed - no new respondents were added to the sample. The aims were to compare findings from this survey and the 1996 survey on health-related behaviour, to examine the relationship between intentions expressed in 1996 and changes in behaviour in 1997, and to look at the relationship between life events and changed behaviour.

Main Topics:

Household characteristics, socio-demographic characteristics of respondents, general health, life events in previous year, smoking, and drinking (self-completion for those aged 16 and 17), physical activity and nutrition, behaviour in the sun, drug use, sexual health (self-completion).

Multi-stage stratified random sample

the 1996 HEMS used this type of sampling; the 1996 HEMS was a multi-stage stratified random sample.

Face-to-face interview

Self-completion