Whitehall Study II
- Abstract
- A second phase, the Whitehall II Study, examined the health of 10,308 civil servants aged 35 to 55, of whom two thirds were men and one third women, all of whom were employed in the London offices of the British Civil Service at the time they were recruited to the study in 1985.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Social class, psychosocial factors, life style, quality of life
- Variables
- Poverty, social determinants, employment, status, cardiovascular disease, ECG measurements, respiratory disease, diabetes, mortality
- Keywords
- Poverty, social determinnats, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, diabetes, mortality
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Employment, Labour
- Area of Health System
- Public health
- Disease Area
- Cardiovascular diseases, Diabetes, Respiratory diseases
- Data Available
- Demographic, Risk behaviours, Socio-economic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
- Data Type
- Survey (longitudinal)
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
- 1985-198: 10,308 non-industrial civil servants from the London-based offices of 20 Civil Service departments. Aged 35-55, approximately one third were women.
- Availability
- ESRC, UCL
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/whitehallII/
- Contact
- Tel: 020 7679 5621 Fax: 020 7419 6732 email: whitehall2@public-health.ucl.ac.uk
- Publications
- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/whitehallII/publications