| Description | Contains various questionnaires completed and concerning subjects who took part in a nutrition survey of the elderly.
The files contain questionnaires concerning social and economic welfare, dietary history and meal patterns, daily food records, medical examination forms, personal details and biochemical examinations. There was an initial survey taken in 1967/8 and a follow up study in 1972/3. There are also coding and punching documents used to transfer the data onto a early computer system.
The survey was carried out on people over the age of 65 in the UK. This comprises only a small sample of the total number of forms filled in. |