Life style; personal characteristics

Life style; personal characteristics

Characteristics Margins Periods Sexual health, 16 years or older High risk sexual activity (%) Nutrition, 1 year or older, from 2023 Food score, health survey High (%)
Level of educ: 3 High Value 2023 2.1 51.5
Level of educ: 3 High Lower bound 95% confidence interval 2023 1.6 49.5
Level of educ: 3 High Upper bound 95% confidence interval 2023 2.8 53.4
Source: CBS.
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This table contains data on life style of the Dutch population in private households. These data can be grouped by several personal characteristics.

Data available from: 2014.

Status of the data: final.

Changes by March 14, 2024:
Data about 2023 have been added.
Figures about laughing gas have been added. The questions about nutrition have changed in 2023.
That is why a new series for nutrition will be started in 2023 and the old series of figures on nutrition (2014-2022) will no longer be added.

When will new data be published?
Data on reporting year 2024 will be published in the second quarter of 2025

Description topics

Sexual health, 16 years or older
The questions on sexual health are asked to persons aged 16 years or older.
High risk sexual activity
The percentage of persons of 16 years or older who's last sexual encounter (that must have taken place in the last 12 months) had a high risk. High risk sex is defined as sexual intercourse or anal sex (between a man and a woman or between two men) that takes place without protection (condom) with a partner with whom the person is not in a steady relationship.
Nutrition, 1 year or older, from 2023
The questions about nutrition are asked to all people aged 1 year or older and cover the consumption of meat and fish, fruit, vegetables, sugary drinks, bread and snacks. The nutritional questions are thoroughly revised in 2023. Therefore the figures on fish, fruit and vegetable consumption for the years before 2023 cannot be compared to those from 2023 onwards.
Food score, health survey
The nutrition score is composed on the basis of partial scores on the following aspects of nutrition: consumption of meat and fish, vegetables, fruit, sugary drinks, brown or wholemeal bread, snacks and (from 12 years) alcohol. The nutritional score ranges from 0 to 10, a higher score indicates that the nutrition on the above aspects is more in line with the Nutrition Center guidelines. The score is divided into three classes.
High
Scores 8 or higher on the nutritional score.