Publication type
Understanding Society Working Paper Series
Series Number
2012-04
Series
Understanding Society Working Paper Series
Authors
Publication date
June 27, 2012
Abstract:
The design of Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study calls for enhanced health content relative to its precursor study, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). This paper documents the design and implementation of the collection of biomeasures by trained nurses in Understanding Society. It reports response outcomes for participation in the nurse visits. As an illustration of the utility of the data, we compare mean blood pressure and prevalence of hypertension with published figures from the 2009 Health Survey for England. This paper will be useful for Understanding Society users and be relevant to those implementing a longitudinal survey with biosocial data collection.
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