NZ Health Survey: Provisional COVID-19 health and wellbeing data
Ministry of Health media release: 10th February 2020
The Ministry of Health has today published provisional results of the 2020/21 New Zealand Health Survey specific to how people’s health and wellbeing have been impacted by COVID-19.
The Ministry annually publishes New Zealand Health Survey results to provide valuable information on the health and wellbeing of people in New Zealand. Today the Ministry is publishing interim monthly COVID-19 related data as part of more regular reporting of how New Zealanders are being impacted by the pandemic.
The findings are published on the Ministry’s website and the most recent key findings for January are available online. Data has also been published for each month from September 2020 to January 2021.
View the provisional monthly results on COVID-19 impacts: 2020/21 New Zealand Health Survey.
Data for the New Zealand Health Survey is captured through face-to-face interviews throughout the year with more than 13,000 adults and the parents or primary caregivers of more than 4,000 children.
Questions asked of participants for the COVID-19 related data being published today include health behaviours to prevent COVID-19; information received about COVID-19; and worries about COVID-19.
The Ministry of Health collected similar information between March and September last year in the COVID-19 Health and Wellbeing Survey.
Find out more about the COVID-19 Health and Wellbeing Survey.
Notes on the data from these surveys
The monthly results are provisional and should be used with caution. To enable sharing of timely and relevant information, the data cleaning and quality assurance processes have not yet been fully completed. These results may therefore need to be revised in the future.
The sample size for each month is relatively small so caution should be used when exploring any changes between months. The results have been weighted to be representative of the New Zealand population.