| Indicators PNS (2013) |
Questions |
| PNS (2013) |
Vigitel (2013) |
Similarities and differences found between PNS e Vigitel |
| Smoking |
| Current cigarette smokers |
Currently, do you smoke any tobacco product? On average, how many of the following items do you currently smoke per day or per week? ... a) factory-made cigarettes?; b) straw or hand-rolled cigarettes?; c) clove cigarettes or kreteks? |
Are you a smoker? |
Comparable questions, with minor differences. PNS is more detailed, listing the types of tobacco products. |
| Passive smokers at home |
Currently, do you smoke any tobacco product? How often does someone smoke inside your household? |
Are you a smoker? Do any of the people who live with you have the habit of smoking inside your household? |
Comparable questions, with minor differences. |
| Passive smokers in the workplace |
Currently, do you smoke any tobacco product? Thinking about all your jobs over the past 30 days, did someone smoke in a closed environment where you work? |
Are you a smoker? Do any work colleague often smoke in the same room where you work? |
Comparable questions. PNS specifies smoking in a closed environment. |
| Former smokers |
Currently, do you smoke any tobacco products? And in the past, did you smoke any tobacco products? |
Are you a smoker? Have you ever been a smoker? |
Comparable questions, with minor differences. |
| Alcohol consumption |
| Alcohol abuse |
Over the past 30 days, have you consumed five/four (for men/women, respectively) or more alcoholic drinks on one occasion? |
Over the past 30 days, have you consumed five/four (for men/women, respectively) or more alcoholic drinks on one occasion? |
Identical questions. The PNS applied a filter to question relating to alcoholic beverage consumption. Thus, the respondents who referred drinking less than once per month were excluded. Vigitel questions all who claim they drink, regardless of the amount. |
| Food consumption |
| Recommended consumption of fruits and vegetables (FV) |
In how many days of the week do you usually eat green salad or tomato salad, or any other raw vegetables? In general, how many times a day do you eat this kind of salad? In how many days of the week do you usually eat cooked vegetables, such as kale, carrot, chayote, eggplant, zucchini? In general, how many times a day do you eat cooked vegetables? In general, how many times a day do you eat fruit? In general, how many glasses of natural fruit juice do you drink a day? |
In how many days of the week do you usually eat green salad or tomato salad or any other raw vegetables? On an average day, do you eat this type of salad ... at lunch, dinner or both? In how many days of the week do you usually eat cooked vegetables with your food or soup, for example, kale, carrot, chayote, eggplant, zucchini (not counting potatoes, cassava or yam)? On an average day, do you eat cooked vegetable ... at lunch, dinner or both? On an average day, how many cups of natural fruit juice do you drink? On an average day, how many times do you eat fruit? |
The questions are similar. In general, PNS questions eating behavior on a typical day, and Vigitel questions the behavior during most days of the week. Different concepts have been applied: Vigitel measures the consumption of five servings of FV five or more days a week. The PNS measures five servings of FV on a typical day, assuming the same regularity for FV consumption on other days of the week. |
| Regular consumption of beans |
In how many days of the week do you usually eat beans? |
In how many days of the week do you usually eat beans? |
Identical questions. |
| Fatty meats |
When you eat red meat, do you usually ... b) eat it with fat? When you eat chicken/poultry, do you usually ... b) eat it with the skin? |
When you eat red meat, do you usually ... b) eat it with fat? When you eat chicken/poultry, do you usually ... b) eat it with the skin? |
Identical questions. |
| Regular consumption of soft drinks or artificial juice |
In how many days of the week do you consume soft drinks (or artificial juice)? |
In how many days of the week do you consume soft drinks or artificial juice? |
Identical questions. |
| Physical activity* |
| Practice of the recommended level of physical activity during free time |
In the last three months, did practice some form of physical exercise or sport? In how many days per week do you usually practice a physical exercise or sport? What physical exercise or sport do you practice more often? In general, in the day you practice a physical exercise or sport, how long is this activity? |
In the last three months, did you practice some form of physical exercise or sport? What is the main type of physical exercise or sport that you practiced? Do you practice physical exercise at least once a week? In how many days per week do you usually practice a physical exercise or sport? On the day that you practice an exercise or sport, how long is this activity? |
Similar questions. |
| Watching TV |
On average, how many hours per day do you spend watching television? |
On average, how many hours per day do you spend watching television? |
Same question, difference in response options. |
