Other Publications and Reports on Monitoring Population Health and Methodological Issues

The Health Survey Program has produced, contributed to, or commissioned reports on monitoring population health and methodological issues.

Monitoring population health

• Pandemic influenza in Australia: Using telephone surveys to measure perceptions of threat and willingness to comply (2008)
• Training manual for the NSW height, weight and waist circumference module of the national survey of adult oral health (2007)
• Trends in population levels of sufficient physical activity in New South Wales, 1998 to 2005: Full report (2007)
• Comparison of short questions relating to quantity and frequency of bread and cereal intake (2006)
• Recommendations for short questions to assess food consumption in children in New South Wales health surveys (2005)
• Breastfeeding in New South Wales: Population Health Survey 2003-2004 (2004)
• Physical activity measurement in children by parental self report (2004)
• Development of a chronic disease risk factor index in the New South Wales Health Survey Program (2003)
• Recommendations for food and nutrition monitoring in New South Wales (2000)
• Recommendations for monitoring overweight and obesity in New South Wales (2000)
• Surveillance of child health in New South Wales: Status, gaps and developments​ (1998)
• Strategy for population health surveillance in New South Wales: Discussion paper​ (1997)

Methodological issues

• Call outcome information for the NSW Population Health Survey using AAPOR definitions 2002-2012 (2013)
• NSW Population Health Survey Methods - 2012 update (2013)
• Weighting procedures, 2012 update (2012)
• Incorporating mobile only persons into the ongoing NSW Population Health Surveys (2012)
• Progress (2012) Report on recommendations from the 2009 Response Plan to address methodological issues that may affect the quality of surveys undertaken by the NSW Health Survey Program (2012)
• Description of the survey automated process analytics system (2009)
• Predicting when declining landline frame coverage will impact on the overall health estimates for the NSW Population Health Survey (2008)
• New South Wales Population Health Survey: Analysis and interpretation of performance data for area health services (2008)
• New South Wales Population Health Survey: Description of Methods (2008)
• Meta prevalence estimates: Generating combined prevalence estimates from separate population surveys (2007)
• Does sampling using random digit dialling really cost more than sampling from telephone directories: Debunking the myths (2006)
• New South Wales Population Health Survey: Review of weighting procedures (2006)
• Report on question development field testing: Cancer, injury, injury prevention, musculo-skeletal disorders, nutrition and physical activity (2004)
• Recommendations for the truncation of Body Mass Index in population data (2003)
• Report on the development of the New South Wales Child Health Survey 2001 (2003)
• Health surveys: Building an information base for population health in New South Wales (2001)
• New South Wales Health Survey Program: An analysis of the costs and benefits of different survey management options (2001)
• The New South Wales Health Survey Program: Overview and methods, 1996-2000 ​(2001)
• Development of the New South Wales Child Health Survey (2000)