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Nutrition
New Zealand Surveys and Related Publications
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New Zealand Nutrition Surveys
NZ Food: NZ People: Key results of the 1997 National Nutrition Survey (Aug 1999)
The report provides definitive information on the nutritional status of adult New Zealanders. For the first time, detailed food and nutrient information on the Maori population and indicative data for the Pacific people of New Zealand are presented.

NZ Food, NZ Children: Findings of the 2002 National Children's Nutrition Survey - results summary (Nov 2003)
This report overviews the 2002 National Children’s Nutrition Survey (CNS02). It describes the methodologies and the data on nutrient intakes and their sources; food security; eating patterns; frequently eaten foods; physical activity patterns; dental health; anthropometric measures and selected nutrition-related clinical measures of New Zealand schoolchildren 5–14 years of age.

View more information on the New Zealand Nutrition Surveys in the Health & Disability Intelligence (HDI) section.

New Zealand Health Surveys
A Portrait of Health: Key results of the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey (Jun 2008)
A Portrait of Health is the first release of key descriptive findings from the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey. Analyses have been presented by gender, age group, ethnic group, neighbourhood deprivation and regional area where possible. Results are compared with earlier surveys where possible for the total population and for Māori by gender.

A Portrait of Health - Key results of the 2002/03 New Zealand Health Survey (Aug 2004)
A Portrait of Health presents key findings of the 2002/03 New Zealand Health Survey. The report includes a detailed description of the survey methodology, as well as information on the prevalence of chronic diseases, the prevalence of health risk and protective factors, the use of a wide range of health services, and self-reported health status.

Taking the Pulse: The 1996/97 New Zealand Health Survey (May 1999)
This report presents an overview of the 1996/97 New Zealand Health Survey, the second nationally representative survey of the health status and health service utilisation of New Zealand adults and children.

A Comparison of Selected Findings from the 1996/97 and 2002/03 New Zealand Health Surveys (Sept 2006)
This report provides information on changes in the prevalence of selected risk and protective factors, diabetes, use of health services and self-reported health status over the six-year period between the 1996/97 and 2002/03 New Zealand Health Surveys.

Questions and answers about the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey

View more information on the New Zealand Health Monitor Surveys in the Health & Disability Intelligence (HDI) section.

Related publications
Food and Nutrition Monitoring Report 2006 - Public Health Intelligence Monitoring Report 9 (Oct 2006)
This report is a synthesis of the most up-to-date and readily available food and nutrition monitoring data for New Zealand. This report was designed as one-stop shop for professionals and agencies working the spectrum of nutrition policy and service provision.

Food Nutrition Monitoring in New Zealand - Occasional Bulletin No 19 (Oct 2003)
This report presents a comprehensive review of the current state of food and nutrition monitoring in New Zealand.

Nutrition and the Burden of Disease: New Zealand 1997-2011 (Aug 2003)
Nutrition is a key determinant of health. However, while it is established that nutrition-related risk factors cause heart disease, diabetes, stroke, cancer and other major health problems, their full impact on the health of New Zealanders has never been accurately quantified.

The objective of this study was therefore to estimate, for selected nutrition-related risk factors, the attributable burden of disease in 1997 as well as the burden of disease that could be avoided in 2011 if exposure to these risk factors were reduced through policy interventions.

Tracking the Obesity Epidemic: New Zealand 1977-2003 (Dec 2004)
Tracking the Obesity Epidemic examines changes in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adults, from 1977 to 2003 for the total population and from 1989 to 2003 for the Maori population. The report also uses to use graphical methods to visualise changes in the BMI distribution.

The data are derived from measured weight and height among adults aged 15-74 years from four national nutrition and health surveys: the 1977 National Diet Survey, 1989 Life in New Zealand Survey, 1997 National Nutrition Survey, and 2002/03 New Zealand Health Survey.

Embodying Social Rank: how body fat varies with social status, gender and ethnicity in New Zealand (Oct 2006)
Obesity is widely recognised to be a major public health concern, and inequalities in body fat distribution are of great current interest. This bulletin uses data from the 2002/03 New Zealand Health Survey to analyse ethnic and gender variations in socio-economic gradients in body fat distribution, using a range of measures of body fat and of socio-economic position.

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