Growing Up in New Zealand: A longitudinal study of New Zealand children and their families. Now we are two: Describing our first 1000 days

Susan M. Morton , Polly E. Atatoa Carr Cameron C. Grant Sarah D. Berry Dinusha K. Bandara Jatender Mohal Peter J. Tricker Vivienne C. Ivory Te Kani R. Kingi Renee Liang Lana M. Perese Elizabeth Peterson Jan E. Pryor Elaine Reese Karen Waldie Clare R. Wall

Ministry of Social Development, Health Research Council, University of Auckland.

2014

Growing Up in NZ, Auckland University

Associate Professor Susan Morton, Director,

Growing Up in New Zealand,

PO Box 18288, Auckland 1743, Phone +64 9 373 7599.

This is the 3rd report released under the Growing Up in New Zealand study and  provides insight into the physical health and development, emotional and behavioural well-being, and cognitive development of New Zealand two-year-olds. The report also depicts changes in the children’s home environment, childcare arrangements and socioeconomic situation over the first two years of their lives.

Using information from direct observations of the children and interviews with their mothers and fathers, the report paints a vivid picture of the reality of life for young children and their families in New Zealand today.

Growing Up in New Zealand is an on-going longitudinal study that provides an up-to-date, population-relevant picture of what it is like to be a child growing up in New Zealand in the 21st century. It recruited and collected information from both mothers and their partners from before their children were born, and it has undertaken several further data collection waves during the children’s first two years of life. It is unique in terms of its capacity to provide a comprehensive picture of contemporary child development across multiple domains of influence for children born in New Zealand, and for including significant numbers of Māori, Pacific and Asian children as well as New Zealand European and other New Zealanders. Approximately 7,000 children and their families are taking part in the study.

Keywords: access, age factors, children, diet, diseases, health status, hospitalisation, immunisation, infants, nutrition, parents and caregivers, primary care, socioeconomic factors

Visit/Download now

Mixed-method

National

Physical activity, Recreation

Parents, Young People

Community

Barriers, Benefits, Impacts - economic, Impacts - environmental, Impacts- social

1175

June 18, 2014