Natsal-3 involved a probability sample of 15,162 adults aged 16-74 who were interviewed between 2010 and 2012
Methodology
The Natsal-3 methodology is described in the Technical Report, which is available to download as is the Natsal-3 questionnaire. Below there are summaries of methodological aspects relating to specific work packages, and here are links to four papers published from the development work for Natsal-3.
- Methodology of the third British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles – here
- Improving questions on sexual partnerships: Lessons learned from cognitive interviews for Britain’s third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (‘Natsal-3’) – here
- Testing for STIs in a population-based sexual health survey: development of an acceptable ethical approach – here
- Scripting sexual function: A qualitative investigation – here
- A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for salivary testosterone with adult male reference interval determination – here