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Data Provider: Welsh Government Number of healthy lifestyle behaviours - Health and well-being measures for children for the National Indicators
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Year[Filtered]
Measure1
Health Behaviour[Filtered]
Measure(Ascending)[Filtered]
Breakdown[Filter]
[Collapse]Click here to sortFewer than two healthy behaviours[Collapse]Click here to sortZero healthy behaviours[Collapse]Click here to sortOne healthy behaviour[Collapse]Click here to sortTwo healthy behaviours[Collapse]Click here to sortThree healthy behaviours[Collapse]Click here to sortFour healthy behaviours
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Male3462813510329
Female3773012811421
Year 771612312843
Year 81321212912631
Year 93052513411223
Year 105411431389415
Year 118217651327610
Low Family Affluence389281539020
Medium Family Affluence3873114010219
High Family Affluence3562912011629
Total3672913110825

Metadata

Title

Health and well-being measures for children for the National Indicators

Last update

December 2021 December 2021

Next update

Unknown

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Health Behaviours in School-aged Children (HSBC)

Source 2

Schools Health Research Network

Contact email

stats.healthinfo@gov.wales

Designation

None

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

The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 is about improving the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales. The Act places a legal requirement on Welsh Ministers to set national indicators for the purpose of measuring progress towards the achievement of the well-being goals.

The HBSC composite measure included in the data table has been laid as one of the national indicators for the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 and will use the percentage of children who have fewer than two healthy lifestyle behaviours (not smoking, eating fruit daily or vegetables daily, never or rarely drink, physically active for an hour everyday) and the individual lifestyle behaviours will be used as contextual indicators.

Data collection and calculation

The HBSC is a school based survey, data are collected through self-completion questionnaires administered in the classroom. Survey questions cover a range of health indicators and health related behaviours as well as the life circumstances of young people. Further information on data collection and calculation can be found in the related statistical publication, as per given weblink.

Data reference periods

2013/14, 2017/18, 2019/20

Statistical quality

Further information on quality and methods can be found in the related statistical publication, as per the given weblink.

Keywords

National Indicator, Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Survey, HBSC, Alcohol, Smoking, Fruit or Vegetable, Physical Activity, Lifestyle Behaviours