DOI: 10.26193/rib3yb
title: The 2007 National Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey

description: The National Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey is the first survey to combine nutrition and physical activity into one study, building on and reflecting similar studies conducted in 1985 (National Physical Activity Survey) and in 1995 (National Nutrition Survey). The aim of the National Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey is to assess changes in the Australian food supply, eating habits, family life and structure and their impact it has on what children do and what they eat, within the age groups of 2-3 years, 4-8 years, 9-13 years and 14-16 years. Food, beverage, supplement and nutrient intakes among children were assessed against the Australian Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents and the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating, while their physical activity levels were measured up against the National Physical Activity Guidelines for Children and Young People. This is the second version of the data to be distributed by the archive, after revisions were made to the data and Users Guide by the Preventative Health National Research Flagship at CSIRO. Unlike the first version of the data, in this version the six data files which make up the data set have been linked together in this one catalogue entry, and can be downloaded in one go. When downloaded, the six data files are: 1. Contacts - Variables include the number of call attempts to potential respondents, length of recruitment call, recruitment status, dates of the CAPI and CATI, CAPI and CATI status, the number of call attempts to conduct the CAPI and CATI, and the length of each interview. 2. CAPI (Computer assisted personal interview) - Variables include interview details, demographic details (including region, age, gender, indigenous status, country of birth and use of other language at home), carer details (including employment), respondent medical conditions, details of other household members and household type, anthropometry (including height, weight, waist, BMI and stride measurements), and short dietary questions (including breastfeeding, use of salt, number of serves of fruit and vegetables). 3. CATI (Computer assisted telephone interview) - Variables include interview details, and monitoring of whether other parts of the study were completed, including whether the pedometer was used. 4. Pedometer - This dataset contains results from the children who were given pedometers. Variables include the average number of steps taken each day, on the weekends and during the week, average distance walked, and the time spent (in minutes) on moderate to vigorous physical activity. 5. Physical activity - This dataset reflects respondents' overall levels of activity within two separate 48 hour periods. Variables include the date of the activity; time spent (in minutes) on moderate and vigorous physical activity, active and passive transport, doing chores, watching TV, playing computer games, talking on the telephone and text messaging, lying down without sleeping, sleeping during the day; and also the time of waking and going to bed that day. 6. Food intake - This dataset reflects respondents' dietary recall within two separate 24 hour periods. Variables include the time and place that items were consumed, the amount consumed, food groups, and the total amount of specific ingredients in foods including, but not limited to: calcium, saturated fats, sugars, carbohydrates, iron, magnesium, cholesterol, and dietary fibre. Users should note that the Food Intake data file contains some value labels which are longer than 60 characters long. The publishing system used by the archive truncates value labels which are more than 60 characters long, but the full labels are available in a supplementary file in the "Other Study Description Materials".
description: <b>Copyright:</b><br>Copyright © 2010, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. All rights reserved.<br><br><b>Historic ADA Version - Prior to migration to Dataverse:</b><br>Version 2 2010-06-22 This version of the data was created by the CSIRO when it was contracted by DoHA to update the data and User Guide, by eliminating where possible any inaccuracies and inconsistencies in these survey resources, including those identified by users of the dataset, staff at the Australian Data Archive and DoHA. These inaccuracies and inconsistencies include (but are not limited to): Missing data for some vitamin and mineral supplements Erroneous data for some nutrient lines Difficulties in understanding how to use population weighting factors The presence of sensitive data in some textual fields of the dataset Difficulties in replicating tables in the User Guide For more information about the revisions, see Related Materials - Updates.<br>