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This guide describes the content of the New Zealand Health Survey for the period 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016. It 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 2015/16, and provides an overview of each section of the survey. The module topics for adults and children in 2015/16 were:

  • tobacco use, for adults aged 15 years and over
  • child developmental health and wellbeing, for children aged under 15 years
  • food security, for households with children aged under 15 years
  • a clip-on module about rheumatic fever, for children and adults under 25 years.

Publishing information

Publication date
Citation

Ministry of Health. 2016. Content Guide 2015/16: New Zealand Health Survey. Wellington: Ministry of Health.

ISBN
978-0-947515-86-7 (online)
HP number
6518
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Owned by the Ministry of Health and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

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