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New Zealand Nutrition Surveys
Information for Adult Nutrition survey participants
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Information for Child Nutrition survey participants
From 13 October 2008 randomly selected adults across New Zealand are being invited to participate in the Ministry of Health's 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey. If you have any questions please contact the Survey Helpline
0800 78 75 74.
The New Zealand Nutrition Survey comprises separate adult and child surveys: the New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey and the New Zealand Child Nutrition Survey. These surveys collect data on food and nutrient intake (including dietary supplements), factors influencing dietary intake (eg, food preparation practices and household food security), nutritional status, and nutrition-related health status, using a combination of interviews and examinations.
Both nutrition surveys include an interviewer-administered 24-hour dietary recall, health questionnaires, as well as an examination component. The examination component may include anthropometric measurements, blood pressure measurement, and blood and urine samples are collected for a range of biochemical tests.
For adults, data are collected via trained interviewers in the respondent’s home. The mode of survey administration is CAPI (computer-assisted face-to-face interviewing). The target population for the Adult Nutrition Survey is the usually resident civilian population residing in permanent private dwellings. The target population for the Child Nutrition Survey in 2002 was school children aged 5 to 14 years, but this may be extended in future years to include the under five year age group. Booster samples for specific age groups and ethnicities may be utilised.
Data are generally collected over a 12-month period every five years (alternating between the adult and child components). The sample size is determined according to the survey objectives, but is generally 5000 people for the adult and 4000 for the child survey.
View data from the 1997 Adult Nutrition Survey and the 2002 Child Nutrition Survey
. Data from the 2008/09 NZ Adult Nutrition Survey will be available from February 2011.
HDI publications utilising Nutrition Survey data are:
NZ Food: NZ People, Key results of the 1997 National Nutrition Survey (1999)
NZ Food NZ Children: Key results of the 2002 National Children’s Nutrition Survey (2003)
Nutrition and the Burden of Disease: New Zealand 1997-2011 (2003)
Tracking the Obesity Epidemic: New Zealand 1977-2003 (2004)
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Page last updated: 31 October 2008