Your Privacy

Data collection and storage

Only trained interviewers (who have signed confidentiality agreements that they will not discuss any of their interviews) interview the people enrolled in the study.

The interview answer forms do not have anyone’s names or addresses, or any other personal information on them. This is to make sure that the interview answers cannot be linked to anyone in the study.

During the interview, the interview answers are typed into a laptop, and the answers are transferred to a database in the research office after the interview is finished. Once the information is transferred to the database, it is erased from the laptop.

When all the interviews are done, the researchers take the anonymous answers and analyse them. None of the researchers have access to people’s private details; this information is locked separately in a secure system. And none of the people who have access to the personal information can look at the interview answers.

All of our data storage systems are as secure as they can be, with only a few people able to access each system.

Ethics Committee approvals

An Ethics Committee approved all of our interview questions, consent forms and information sheets before we started enrolling women and their partners into Growing Up in New Zealand.

By having an independent committee review all of our material, the people enrolled in the study can be sure that their rights and their personal information are protected.