Research Projects Using Growing Up Data
Infant feeding in New Zealand: Adherence to the national food and nutrition guidelines
Publication Date:
2017
Lead Organisation:
University of Auckland
Lead Researcher:
Teresa Gontijo de Castro
Access Type:
External
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
Secondary Classification:
The study will investigate adherence to the nutritional guidelines for New Zealand infants.
Growing Up in New Zealand data will be used to create a composite index that describes the degree of adherence to recommendations in the Ministry of Health’s infant feeding guidelines and allows for exploration of associations with socio-demographic characteristics. The components of the index will be based on the Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Infants from the Ministry of Health for the year that the GuiNZ 9 month interview took place