Health Survey for England 2003 - Methodology and documentation




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HSE - Methodology and Documentation

1 Introduction

1.1 The Health Survey for England series

1.2 The 2003 survey

1.3 Reports on the Health Survey for England 2003

1.4 Availability of unpublished data

2 Sample design

2.1 Overview of the sample design

2.2 Selection of primary sampling units

2.3Sampling addresses

2.4 Sampling individuals within households

3 Topic coverage

3.1 Documentation

3.2The Stage 1 interview

3.3 The Stage 2 nurse visit

4 Fieldwork procedures

4.1 Advance letters

4.2 Making contact

4.3 Collecting data

4.4 Interviewing and measuring children

4.5 Feedback to informants

5 Fieldwork quality control and ethical clearance

5.1 Quality control measures

5.2 Ethical clearance

6 Survey response

6.1 Introduction to response analysis

6.2 Household response

6.3 Individual response - adults (aged 16+) in sample II households

6.4 Individual response - children (0-15)

6.5 Variations in survey response

6.6 Age and sex profile of the sample

7 Weighting the data

7.1 Background

7.2 Overview of the weighting method

7.3 Calculation of the weights

7.4 Effects of weighting on the HSE

8 Data analysis and reporting

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Weighted and unweighted data and bases in the report tables

8.3 Defining age for data collection

8.4 Age as an analysis variable

8.5 Age standardisation

8.6 Comparisons with previous HSE reports

8.7 Design effects and true standard errors

9 Changes to methodology

9.1 Blood pressure equipment change

9.2 Inclusion of urine sampling for the first time

10 Quality control of blood and saliva analytes

10.1 Introduction and key conclusions

10.2 Analysing laboratory

10.3 Samples collected

10.4 Methodology

10.5 Internal quality control (IQC)

10.6 External quality assessment (EQA)

Tables

Appendices

A Fieldwork documents

B Measurement protocols

C Coding frame for medicines

D Glossary

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