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Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics General health and illness by year, 2016-17 to 2019-20
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[Collapse]General healthHealth in general - Good or Very Good72707271
Health in general - Fair20201920
Health in general - Bad or Very Bad81099
[Collapse]IllnessThere was a minor change in questions on limiting illness between 2016-17 and 2017-18Any longstanding illnesses47464648
2 or more longstanding illnesses21211921
Limited at all by longstanding illness33343335
Limited a lot by longstanding illness16201819
[Collapse]Type of illnessSelected illnessesMusculoskeletal complaints17171717
Heart and circulatory complaints13131313
Endocrine and metobolic diseases8878
Respiratory system complaints8989
Mental disorders89911

Metadata

Title

National Survey for Wales - adult general health and illness by age and gender

Last update

September 2020 September 2020

Next update

None

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

National Survey for Wales, Welsh Government

Contact email

stats.healthinfo@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Wales

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

Information on general health and illness of adults in Wales by age and gender.

Data collection and calculation

Information is collected via the National Survey for Wales. Based on a sample survey. Sample sizes for some groups are relatively small, and the results should be treated with caution. 95% confidence intervals and sample sizes are also shown to give an indication of the precision of results.
See weblinks.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data is shown from 2016-17 onwards.

Users, uses and context

See weblinks.

Rounding applied

None

Revisions information

See weblinks.

Statistical quality

See weblinks.

Keywords

National Survey for Wales; National Survey; Well-being; Health