Children and young people: health behaviours
Data on children and young people’s health behaviours are available from the following sources:
- ScotPHO profiles (national and local level):
- Active travel to school
- Alcohol weekly drinkers, pupils aged 15 years
- Drug use last month, pupils aged 15 years
- Drug use last year, pupils aged 15 years
- Proportion of S4 pupils participating in recreational groups and activities
- Proportion of S4 pupils who are regular smokers
- Proportion of S4 pupils who are weekly drinkers
- Proportion of S4 pupils who use drugs monthly
- ScotPHO pages:
- Surveys:
- Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) (last collected 2022)
- Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS), now replaced with the Health and Wellbeing Census
The health of children and young people can also be also affected by the behaviour of others:
- Routine Public Health Scotland statistics: Infant feeding statistics
- ScotPHO pages: Infant feeding
- ScotPHO profiles:
- Post-partum smoking rate
- Exposure to secondhand smoke at 6-8 weeks
- Babies exclusively breastfed at 6-8 weeks
Please note: If you require the most up-to-date data available, please check the data sources directly as new data may have been published since these data pages were last updated. Although we endeavour to ensure that the data pages are kept up-to-date, there may be a time lag between new data being published and the relevant ScotPHO web pages being updated.
