People’s estimates of how many New Zealand adults smoke: In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2014 In HPA's Health and Lifestyles Survey all respondents (aged 15+ years) were asked to estimate the number of New Zealand adults who smoked daily (as perceived…
Monitoring the Youth Guarantee policy 2010-2012 Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2014 This report focuses on the initial implementation of the Youth Guarantee policy in the period from 2010 to 2012 and looks at how effective the fees-free…
Forecasting mortality in New Zealand (Stats NZ WP 14-01) Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2014 Statistics New Zealand regularly derives projections as an indication of future changes in New Zealand’s population size, age-sex structure, and growth rate. The projections are based…
Suicide Facts: Deaths and intentional self-harm hospitalisations 2011 Last Publication Date: 27 Jan 2014 The publication focuses on suicide deaths and self-harm hospitalisations in 2011 and also contains time trend analyses of suicide deaths from 1948 and intentional self-harm hospitalisations…
Demographic and Parental Influences on Breakfast Consumption Rates: In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2014 Promoting breakfast eating among children has many benefits, including improved cognitive and physical abilities, increased likelihood of meeting the recommendations for fruit and vegetable intake, and…
Parental monitoring and substance use among Pacific youth: In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2014 Parents have a significant influence on the societal norms, values and behaviour learned by their children. Permissive parental rule setting and monitoring has been shown to…
Understanding and awareness of depression: In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2014 Globally, depression is marked to become the second leading cause of disability by 2020 (Murray & Lopez, 1996). Six percent of New Zealanders experience a major…
Attitudes towards alcohol among 15 to 17-year-olds: In Fact Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2014 Understanding the attitudes this population group has towards alcohol is helpful in developing effective health promotion programmes targeting risky alcohol consumption. The Health Promotion Agency’s (HPA’s)…
Links between smoking and risky alcohol consumption - Fact Sheet Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2014 This fact sheet assesses whether the prevalence of risky alcohol consumption (defined as high levels of alcohol consumption on a single occasion) among New Zealand adults…
Tobacco brand recognition among New Zealand adults - Fact Sheet Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2014 This fact sheet uses data from HPA's 2014 Health and Lifestyles Survey (HLS) to gauge tobacco brand recognition among New Zealand adults. This is achieved by…
