Healthy Lifestyle Estimates for England, 2003-2005, with Confidence Intervals

England's modelled estimates for adult lifestyle indicators from 2003 to 2005, including smoking, binge drinking, obesity, and fruit/vegetable consumption. The dataset provides synthetic estimates with 95% confidence intervals at multiple geographic levels, produced by The Information Centre for health and social care and published via Neighbourhood Statistics. Each area's estimate is scored relative to the national Health Survey for England estimate.

Use Cases

• Mapping regional health inequalities based on modelled estimates for smoking, drinking, obesity, and diet.
• Comparing local authority performance against national benchmarks using the provided significance scores.
• Analyzing correlations between different lifestyle variables across Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOAs).

Strengths

• Includes 95% confidence intervals for all modelled estimates, allowing for uncertainty assessment.
• Covers four key public health indicators: smoking, binge drinking, obesity, and fruit/vegetable consumption.
• Provides data at four geographic levels: MSOA, Local Authority District, Primary Care Trust, and Strategic Health Authority.

Limitations

• Data is modelled (synthetic estimates) rather than direct survey measurements.
• Time coverage is from 2003-2005; data may not reflect current trends.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

The Information Centre for health and social care (IC), published by Neighbourhood Statistics, aggregated by Office for National Statistics.

Collection Method

Modelled data (synthetic estimates) derived from survey sources.

Time Range

2003-2005

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:25.676655; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England