Your Privacy

Data collection and storage

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

During the interview, the answers are recorded using a laptop, and then transferred to a secure database in the research office. Once the information is transferred to the database, it is erased from the laptop.

When all the interviews are done, the researchers take the 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

The Northern Y Regional 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 personal information are protected.