A research about Danish food habits

Questionnaire

The 2nd of November we went with our class and our teachers to Copenhaguen to do a research about a topic. My classmates, Ilknur and Ana, and me decided to investigate about Danish food habits. So we made this questionnaire and asked it to ten people, 5 females and 5 males, between them theare are 5 people over thirty  and 5 under. Here you can see the questionnaire and under it there are some statistics which reflect the answers and a final conclusion. I hope you find it interesting.

Questions

1. You have lunch between:
a. 11:00 - 12:00
b. 12:00-13.00
c. 13:00-14:00

2. Do you snack between meals:
a. Usually
b. Sometimes
c. Never

3. What is your most important meal?
a. Breakfast
b. Lunch
c. Dinner

4. How many times do you eat in a day?
a. Two
b. Three
c. More than three

5. You have dinner between :
a. 16:00-18:00
b. 18.00- 20:00
c. 20:00- 22:00

6. How often do you eat outside?
a. Once a month
b. Once a week
c. Several times a week

7. How often do you eat foreign food? What‘s your favorite one?
a. Usually
b. Sometimes
c. Never/Rarely

8. Do you prefer eating organic food rather inorganic?
a. Yes
b. No
c. I don’t mind

9. How often do you eat fast food?
a. Usually
b. Sometimes
c. Never/Rarely

10. What is the food you eat mostly?



Here we reflected the answers:

	F/M	<30	>30	a					b					c
1				1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
				6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10
2				1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
				6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10
3				1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
				6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10
4				1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
				6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10
5				1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
				6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10
6				1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
				6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10
7				1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
				6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10
8				1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
				6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10
9				1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
				6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10
10				1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
				6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10	6	7	8	9	10

 

Statistics

Question1. You have lunch between:
a. 11:00 – 12:00
b. 12:00 – 13:00
c. 13:00 - 14:00


Question 2. How often do you snack between meals?:
a. Usuallyb. Sometimesc. Never


Question 3. What is your most important meal?:
a. Breakfast
b. Lunch
c. Dinner



Question 4. How many times do you eat in a day?
a. Two
b. Three
c. More than tree

 
Question 5. You have dinner between:

a. 16.00 – 18:00

b. 18:00 – 20:00

c. 20:00 – 22:00

Question 6. How often do you eat outside?
a. Once a month
b. Once a week
c. Several times a week



Question 7. How often do you eat food? And what is your favorite one?
a. Usually
b. Sometimes
c. Never / Rarely



Here there are the answers given in the second part of the question:

• Arabian
• Indian (this answer is given twice)
• Italian
• Japanese (this answer is given twice)
• Turkish
• Chinese
• Thai food

Question 8. Dou you prefer eating organic food rather than inorganic?

a. Yes

b. No

c. I don’t mind

Question 9. How often do you eat fast food? 

a. Usually

b. Sometimes

c. Never / rarely

Question 10. What is the food you eat mostly?

• Pasta (seven people gave the same answer)
• Bread and vegetables
• Vegetables ( two people gave the same answer.)
• Black bread
• Meat and vegetables

CONCLUSIONS:
We have asked this questionnaire to ten people and what we have found out is these:

• The most of them prefer having lunch between 12:00-13:00.
• Most of them usually snack between meals.
• The 90% of females think that the most important meal is breakfast and males give more importance to lunch and dinner.
• Every woman eats more than three times in a day and most of the men prefer eating just three or less times.
• Almost the 100% of those polled agree about having dinner between 18:00 and 20:00.
• In relation with question 6, all of females eat outside once a month. However, males have different opinions, as some of them do it once a week.
• The majority of over thirty people eat foreign food sometimes and in reference with the youngest ones there is the same percentage who eat it usually and sometimes.
• Moreover, the foreign food they prefer most are the Indian and the Japanese ones.
• All of the people, regardless the age or the gender prefer organic food.
• Almost of all the people we polled eat fast food sometimes.
• Pasta and vegetables are the most common food that these Danish people eat.

In summary, from our point of view, in general, Danish food habits are healthier than ours (Turkish and Spanish), as they have breakfast so early because they also get up in the first light of the day. Moreover, they also have dinner sooner and go to bed earlier than us; prefer eating organic rather than inorganic food; they eat a lot of vegetables and not so much fast food; and they eat a lot of times in a day.

Could research activities like these also be used as a teaching activity? How?

 

Research activities can also be used as a teaching activity. In fact, they are an enjoyable, usable and entertaining way of learning. We can use them in every subject, such as History. As we can ask our pupils to do a questionnaire about some aspects related to the generation of their grandparents or even their parents and then tells them to ask it to people who belonged to that generation (it is not necessary that they ask to a member of their family). Furthermore, this kind of activity can also be used for Physical Education, as we can ask our pupils to investigate about traditional games people used to play in the past, when they did not have so many resources as we have nowadays. Once they have done it, we can practice some of them in Physical Education lessons. This activity, not only give our students more information about how people used to life in the past, but it is also a chance to teach them that there are more ways for having fun instead of being sitting playing computer games.