Welcome to Growing Up in New Zealand
Growing Up in New Zealand is New Zealand's contemporary longitudinal study tracking the development of approximately 7,000 New Zealand children from before birth until they are young adults. The study is designed to provide unique information about what shapes children’s early development and how interventions might be targeted at the earliest opportunity to give every New Zealand child the best start in life. Here at Growing Up we are committed to maintaining contact will all our participant families and ensuring that each one of your 7,000 voices is heard and has the opportunity to contribute to research that will help shape positive outcomes for all children growing up in 21st century New Zealand.
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Growing Up in New Zealand releases Transition to school report
14 June 2018Growing Up in New Zealand has today released its latest study report, Transition to school. -
Growing Up in New Zealand welcomes funding announcement
15 May 2018Growing Up in New Zealand has warmly welcomed today’s announcement from the Minister for Social Development, the Honourable Carmel Sepuloni, that it will restore funding of more than $1.9 million to the child development study.
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72 Month Data Access Workshop (Auckland) Event as iCalendar
06 September 2018, 11:30am - 1:15pmSix-year data from the Growing Up in New Zealand study is now ready for researchers to access and utilise.
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Fathers can get new baby depression too
20 February 2017Growing Up in New Zealand research showing that fathers can be affected by prenatal and postnatal depression received extensive national and international media coverage.
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Access to GUiNZ data
Antenatal and nine-month data from Growing Up in New Zealand is available for use by researchers outside the Growing Up team.
Find more information on how to apply for access to our external data sets
