Published online:
01 December 2021
This guide describes the content of the New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) for the year ended 30 June 2021. Due to COVID-19 disruptions data was collected over the year September 2020 to August 2021.
This guide also briefly outlines the history of the survey and its development into a continuous survey, describes the process for developing the adult and child questionnaires for 2020/21, and provides an overview of each section of the survey.
The module topics for adults and children in 2020/21 were:
- racial discrimination, for adults
- COVID-19, for adults
- functional difficulties, for children
- child development, for children
- household food security, for children.