Survey response

Table 1 summarises address-level response rates. In total, 19,500 addresses were issued. In remote surveys, no information is known about the reason for non-response in each individual address. However, it can be assumed that around 10% of addresses in the sample (1,950) were not residential and were therefore ineligible to complete the survey. The adjusted address-level response rate, i.e. the proportion of eligible addresses where a questionnaire was completed by at least one adult in eligible addresses, was 25%. On Health Survey for England (HSE) 2019 an equivalent household response rate of 60% was achieved.  

In total, 5,778 adults completed the survey. Once ineligible addresses are removed, the adjusted individual-level response rate was 17%. Of the 4,465 households responding to the survey, 27% of questionnaires were completed by one responding adult from single occupancy households; and 70% of questionnaires were completed by two responding adults from multiple occupancy