Adult lifestyle from the National Survey for Wales 2016 to 17 to 2019 to 20: additional analysis by disability, ethnic group, marital status, religion, sexual orientation

This report contains additional analysis from the National Survey for Wales. It combines four years of data to analyse healthy lifestyle behaviours among adults by selected protected characteristics.

Information on healthy lifestyle behaviours among adults in Wales comes from the National Survey for Wales. This article combines four years of data to analyse healthy lifestyle behaviours by selected protected characteristics (disability, ethnic group, marital status, religion, sexual orientation). There are some differences in healthy lifestyle behaviours between groups, and the patterns of difference can vary depending on the lifestyle behaviour.

Overall, after taking age into account:

non-disabled adults were more likely to report having two or more healthy lifestyle behaviours than disabled adults
adults in the Asian or Asian British group were more likely to report having two or more healthy lifestyle behaviours than those in the White group
adults who were married or in a civil partnership were more likely to report having two or more healthy lifestyle behaviours than those who were single or those who were separated or divorced
adults identifying as Muslim were more likely to report having two or more healthy lifestyle behaviours than those in other groups (although the difference compared with the Other religion group, which includes Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Sikh, and any other religion, was not statistically significant); those reporting No religion were least likely to do so
adults identifying as bisexual were more likely to report having two or more healthy lifestyle behaviours than those in other groups

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