COMPARISON WITH OTHER SURVEYS

The findings are more useful when they can be tracked overtime. For that reason we have attempted to ask questions that can be compared elsewhere.

We have used two particular surveys for this benchmarking exercise.

The 2002 Health Related Behaviour survey which asked questions about the lifestyle of Guernsey primary and secondary age pupils – referred to as the Guernsey 2002 survey or the 2002 survey

The Young People into 2007 survey, undertaken by the School Health Education Unit. This was a Health Related Behaviour questionnaire for 68, 498 English young people between the ages of 10 and 15. It has been undertaken for 30 years – referred to as the England 2007 survey or the English Survey