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Natsal | Participants

The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles

If you are visiting this site, you may have received one of our letters asking you to take part in our study. If you have already taken part, many thanks for your help and we hope you enjoyed the interview.

Natsal 2010-2012 stands for the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, and is a study that takes place every 10 years. Natsal 2010-2012 will involve 15,000 people across the length and breadth of Britain. The results will track changes since the last study 10 years ago, and help plan health education and services, including family planning, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections, and NHS services.

Please see our FAQ section for more information about the history of Natsal.

The study is funded through the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.

What happens next?

If your household has received a letter inviting you to participate, one of our interviewers will visit you in the next few weeks to ask one person aged 16-74 in your household to take part at a time that is convenient for you. This interviewer will be from NatCen (National Centre for Social Research) and will show you their photo ID. We'll give the person we interview a £15 gift voucher as a thank you. We hope you will be willing to take part, as your address has been specially chosen by random selection to be part of the study and we can't give your place to anyone else.

Your personal details will be kept strictly confidential and no-one looking at the study findings will be able to identify you or your household in any way.

Types of questions

Some of the topics we may ask you about in Natsal 2010-2012 include:

• General health
• Pregnancies and fertility
• Attitudes towards sex and relationships
• Contraception
• Family, marriage and relationships
• Learning about sex
• First sexual experiences
• Sexually transmitted infections

You will complete the most personal questions yourself, and you don't have to answer any question you don't want to.

Most of the questions asked in Natsal 2010-2012 were asked in the previous Natsal studies, allowing us to look at changes over time.

People who have already taken part in the study found it enjoyable and interesting, and we hope you will too.

Are we in your area?

Click here if you'd like to know the areas we're interviewing in at the moment.

Do you have any questions?

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