DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-7262-1
title: Food and You Survey, 2012
title: Food and You Surveys, 2010-2018, and Food and You 2, 2020-
title: Food and You Survey: Wave 2

description: &lt;p&gt;The &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Food and You Surveys&lt;/span&gt; (2010-2018), and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Food and You 2&lt;/span&gt; (2020- ) are bi-annual, cross-sectional surveys of adults aged 16 years and over living in England, Wales and Northern Ireland,  commissioned by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Food and You&lt;/span&gt; provides data about the prevalence of different attitudes, reported behaviour and knowledge about ways in which food is purchased, stored, prepared and eaten.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Food and You, 2010-2018&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;From 2010, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Food and You&lt;/span&gt; became the FSA’s flagship social survey. In addition, the FSA conducted regular tracking surveys including the bi-annual Public Attitudes Tracker and the annual Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) Consumer Attitudes Tracker (these studies are not held at UKDS). From Wave 4, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Food and You&lt;/span&gt; included new questions to cover the affordability of food, choice, security and sustainability.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Food and You 2, 2020-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 2018, the FSA’s Advisory Committee for Social Science (ACSS) recommended that Food and You and the Public Attitudes Tracker be replaced with a new ‘push-to-web’ survey, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Food and You 2&lt;/span&gt;, which was commissioned in 2019 with data collection commencing in July 2020. Due to differences in the survey methodologies, comparisons cannot be made between the earlier &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Food and You&lt;/span&gt; surveys, or the Public Attitudes Tracker, and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Food and You 2&lt;/span&gt;. Therefore &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Food and You 2&lt;/span&gt;, 2020 is the start of a new data time series. Data will be collected through Food and You 2 on a bi-annual basis. Unlike the previous surveys, as well as the standard End User Licence (EUL) study for &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Food and You 2&lt;/span&gt; the UKDS also holds additional variables under Special Licence (see SN 8815).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Further information may be found on the FSA's &lt;a title="Food and You Survey" href="https://www.food.gov.uk/research/food-and-you"&gt;Food and You Survey&lt;/a&gt; webpage.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt; The objectives of the &lt;i&gt;Food and You Survey, 2012&lt;/i&gt; were to collect quantitative information to enable the FSA to: explore public understanding of, and engagement with, the Agency’s aim of improving food safety; assess public attitudes to new developments, such as emerging food technologies; assess knowledge of, and response to, messages and interventions aimed at raising awareness and changing behaviour; identify specific target groups for future interventions (e.g. those most at risk or those among whom FSA policies and initiatives are likely to have the greatest impact); monitor changes over time (compared with data from Wave 1 or from other sources) in attitudes and behaviour; broaden the evidence base and develop indicators to assess progress in fulfilling the Agency’s strategic plans, aims and targets.