Health and Wellbeing of 15-year-olds (What About Youth Survey), Borough

Health and Wellbeing of 15-year-olds in England - results from What About Youth Survey. Data has been collected on general health, diet, use of free time, physical activity, smoking, drinking, emotional wellbeing, drugs and bullying. What About YOUth? 2014 (WAY 2014) is a newly-established survey designed to collect robust local authority (LA) level data on a range of health behaviours amongst 15 year-olds. WAY 2014 is the first survey to be conducted of its kind and it is hoped that the survey will be repeated in order to form a time series of comparable data on a range of indicators for 15 year-olds across England. Questionnaire packs were sent to 295,245 young people in England and 120,115 of these responded with usable data, giving an unadjusted response rate of 40 per cent (based on the issued sample) and an adjusted response rate of 41 per cent. Participants for WAY 2014 were sampled from the Department for Education’s National Pupil Database (NPD). The NPD is a near full population database (with the exception that independent schools are not included). More Information from The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) website and data downloads available from PHE Fingertips.