News and Events

June 9, 2015

Policy Brief: Employment and parental leave around the time of birth

Little is known about parents’ experiences of recent parental leave in New Zealand, including their preferences and realities.

March 26, 2015

Pre-school data collection wave completed

It is always an important time for us when we complete a new round of interviews with our Growing Up in New Zealand families.

March 13, 2015

High rate of Strep bacteria bugging Kiwi kids

Over half of healthy New Zealand pre-school children are carriers of Staphylococcus aureus.

December 16, 2014

Study on skin infection in children gets funding boost

Medical research from the Centre for Longitudinal Research into the factors contributing to serious skin infections in children has benefited from a funding boost by the Auckland Medical Research Foundation.

December 9, 2014

Young New Zealand families are moving house more than ever

New Zealand families with children under two move house much more than previously thought and more often than families in other countries.

October 14, 2014

NZ parents hope for more than just happy and healthy babies

What do expectant mums and dads hope for their children? According to new research from Growing Up in New Zealand, a baby’s health and happiness may be high up on the list, but today’s parents want a lot more than that.

October 13, 2014

Preliminary results from 'Kai Time in ECE' published

Kai time in ECE is a one-off online survey of managers of licensed ECE services in the Auckland, Counties Manukau and Waikato District Health Board (DHB) regions, collecting information about food, nutrition and physical activity practices and policies for 3-4 year olds.

September 12, 2014

Milk contributes to iron deficiency in New Zealand newborns

Pregnant women who drink three or more servings of milk per day might put their babies at risk of being iron deficient during an important phase of their development, according to new research from Growing Up in New Zealand.

September 9, 2014

Research confirms: Growing Up in New Zealand cohort broadly generalisable to all contemporary New Zealand births

Growing Up in New Zealand is the first longitudinal child cohort study to broadly generalisable to all contemporary New Zealand births, according to a scientific paper published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.

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