Since 1992, INPES (which became Santé publique France in 2016) has been conducting, in partnership with numerous health stakeholders, a series of surveys known as the "Health Barometers," which examine the various health behaviors and attitudes of the French population.

These surveys are two-stage random samples (selecting a household and then an individual), conducted using a computer-assisted telephone interviewing system. The 2014 Health Barometer is the sixth wave of this extensive study.

Four years after the legal opening of the online gambling market in France, this survey was launched to assess the impact of this expanded market on gambling practices. Several other topics related to gambling practices (use of psychoactive substances, mental health) or concerning emerging issues (e-cigarettes, internet use for health purposes) were included in the questionnaire.
See the survey questionnaire

The fieldwork for the survey was conducted by Ipsos and took place from December 11, 2013, to May 31, 2014, in metropolitan France, with 15,635 participants. Landline and mobile phone numbers were randomly generated from the prefixes assigned by ARCEP.

To be eligible, a household had to include at least one person aged 15 to 75 who spoke French. Respondents were selected by random drawing from among eligible household members via landline, and from among regular mobile phone users via mobile. The survey took an average of 33 minutes to complete. The data were weighted by the number of eligible individuals and telephone lines within the household and calibrated against the most recent INSEE national reference data available at the time of preparing the 2014 Health Barometer database, namely those from the 2012 Employment Survey.

The results of the 2014 Health Barometer were made public through reports, articles, and other publications (listed below by topic)

Methodology

Richard JB, Gautier A, Guignard R, Léon C, Beck F. Health Barometers, 2015: 20 p.
Access the methodology

Choolun P., Beck F., David C., Blineau V., Guignard R., Gautier A., Nouchi M., Richard J.-B. 8^th Francophone Symposium on Surveys, SFdS, Dijon, November 2014.
In 2014, how to successfully conduct a random telephone survey of the general population?

Richard J.B., Andler R., Gautier A., Guignard R., Léon C., Beck F. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 2016 (in press)
Effects of using an overlapping dual-frame design on estimates of health behaviors: a French general population telephone survey.

Results

Tobacco / E-cigarettes

Andler R., Guignard R., Wilquin J. L., Beck F., Richard J. B., Nguyen-Thanh V. International Journal of Public Health, 2016, vol. 61, no. 2: pp. 159–165.
Electronic cigarette use in France in 2014.

Andler R., Guignard R., Wilquin J.-L., Beck F., Nguyen-Thanh V. Evolutions, June 2015, No. 33: 6 p. Electronic
cigarette use in France in 2014.

Pasquereau A, Guignard R, Andler R, Richard J-B, Arwidson P, Beck F, Nguyen-Thanh V. BEH, 2016, No. 15: pp. 253–263.
Exposure to tobacco smoke in public spaces and social gathering places in France in 2014.

Guignard R., Beck F., Wilquin J.-L., Andler R., Nguyen-Thanh V., Richard J.-B., Arwidson P. Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, 2015, No. 17-18: pp. 281-8. Tobacco use in France
and its trends: results of the 2014 Health Barometer.

Guignard R., Beck F., Richard J.-B., Lermenier A., Wilquin J.-L., Nguyen-Thanh V. Evolutions, January 2015, vol. 31: 6 p. Tobacco
use in France in 2014: characteristics and recent trends.

Guignard R., Beck F., Richard J.-B., Wilquin J.-L., Nguyen-Thanh V. La Santé en action, No. 431, March 2015, pp. 5–7. Tobacco use in
France: key findings from the 2014 Health Barometer.

Alcohol

Richard J.-B., Cogordan C., Palle C., Obradovic I. ADSP, 2015, vol. 90: pp. 10–15.
Consumption patterns and their distribution: products consumed and trends

Richard J.-B., Nguyen-Thanh V., Beck F. Public Health News and Reports No. 90, 2015. Alcohol and health.
Focus on young people aged 18–25.

Richard J.-B., Palle C., Guignard R., Cogordan C., Andler R., Nguyen-Thanh V., et al. Evolutions, 2015, vol. 32: 6 p. Alcohol
consumption in France in 2014: characteristics and recent trends

Other psychoactive substances

Beck F., Richard J.-B., Guignard R., Le Nézet O., Spilka S. Trends No. 99, 2015, 8 p.
Levels of drug use in France in 2014. Health Barometer 2014.

Palle C. Saint-Denis, OFDT, 2015: 12 pp.
Summary of the literature review on addictions in the workplace.

Richard J. B., Beck F. BEH, 2016, vol. 7-8: pp. 126-133.
Long-term trends in tobacco and alcohol consumption in France, through the lens of gender and social inequalities.

Other topics

Richard J.-B., Bluzat L., Nguyen-Thanh V. La Santé en action, 2016, vol. 436: pp. 48–49.
Two-thirds of French people use the Internet for health-related purposes.

Richard J.-B. Oral presentation at the 10th Conference on Prevention and Public Health – June 9–11, 2015, Paris.
Telephone, Internet, social media: how effective are they in health prevention?

Léon C., David F., du Roscoät E. BEH, 2016, vol. 2-3: pp. 34-40.
Listening to amplified music, behavioral analysis among 15- to 35-year-olds: results of the 2014 Health Barometer.

Ménard C., Grizeau-Clemens D., Wemaere J. Evolutions, 2016, vol. 35: 10 p. Oral
health in adults.

Costes J.-M., Eroukmanoff V., Richard J.-B., Tovar, M.-L. Notes from the Gaming Observatory, No. 6, 2015, 9 pp.
Gambling in France in 2014.