New South Wales Population Health Survey
History
In the early 1990s, a growing need for data to support state, area, and local level population health efforts - coincident with the emergence of telephone surveys as a robust and cost-effective method - motivated the introduction of several telephone health surveys in New South Wales.
In 1994, the NSW Department of Health conducted the New South Wales Health Promotion Survey, the largest telephone health survey conducted in Australia to that time, with a sample designed to provide comparable estimates for each of the state's area health services.
Between 1997 and 2001, the NSW Department of Health conducted the following surveys:
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1997 Adult Health Survey
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1998 Adult Health Survey
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1999 Older People's Health Survey
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2001 Child Health Survey.
In January 2002, the continuous New South Wales Population Health Survey commenced.