Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Health Survey for England, 2005

Variable Details

Variablefatq
LabelType of fat usually used for cooking
Question text When you eat fried foods, what kind of fat or oil are the foods usually cooked in? Is it … butter, ghee, lard, suet or other solid cooking fat, hard or soft margarine, half fat butter, vegetable oil e.g. sunflower, olive, rape, seed, mustard, peanut?
Responses
1 ...butter, ghee, lard, suet or other solid cooking fat, 75
2 Hard or soft margarine, half fat butter, 37
3 Or vegetable oil, e.g. Sunflower, olive, rape, seed, mustard 2128
4 Does not use oil or fat in cooking 551
-9 No answer/refused 0
-8 Don't know 2
-7 Refused/not obtained 0
-6 Schedule not obtained 0
-2 Schedule not applicable 0
-1 Item not applicable 10504
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationHealth Survey for England, 2005
Interviewer InstructionsCODE ONE ONLY. READ OUT…
UniverseAdults (aged 16 and over) and children (aged 0-15 years) in the general population, living in private households in England during 2005. Boost samples of children aged 2-15 and people aged 65 years and over were also included.;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. The survey is conducted annually.