Overall | - Instrument design and layout changes introduced in 2020–21 NHS to improve usability and make it more suitable for both online reporting (in 2020–21 only) and interviewer enumeration.
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Gender and sexual orientation | |
Visa Status | - New question module and associated outputs.
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Country of Birth of Parents | |
Education | - Minor question and sequencing updates to improve comparability across other household surveys.
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Employment | - Minor question and sequencing updates to improve comparability across other household surveys.
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Defence Force Service | - Wording update to 'inclusions' description to exclude Australian Defence Force Cadets.
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Mental Wellbeing | - Change to population to include 15 years and over when answering for self. In 2017–18 NHS these questions were only asked of people aged 18 years and over.
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Physical Activity | - Major updates to question module to improve respondent experience and accuracy of reporting.
- Amount of time spent on physical activity collected for each individual day of the last week, rather than just the total amount last week.
- New physical activity day level (output data level), with daily timing data for types of physical activity each day.
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Breastfeeding | - New question and output item for reasons child started having any food or drink other than breast milk.
- Minor changes to question wording and sequencing to improve data quality.
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Diet | - Changes to fruit and vegetable visual aids for serving sizes.
- Question updates to fruit and vegetable number of serves to allow more accurate reporting against guidelines.
- Sweetened and diet beverages consumption questions removed.
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Smoking | - New questions and outputs on use of e-cigarettes and vaping.
- Removed question and output item for smoking level compared to 12 months ago.
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Alcohol Consumption | - Alcohol consumption module updated to report consumption of common alcohol drink types instead of specific alcohol brands.
- Redesigned daily consumption questions into a matrix style to capture volume and number of drinks by alcohol type.
- 12 month alcohol consumption questions re-ordered to reduce respondent burden.
- Outputs updated to include new 2020 Alcohol Guidelines along side 2009 Alcohol Guidelines.
- Improved collection of type and size of alcoholic drinks, including new visual aids.
- Addition of beer size description (e.g. pint, pot, schooner, etc) based on terms used in the respondent's State or Territory of residence, to aid in improved identification of drink size.
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Health Conditions | - Minor changes to question wording and sequencing across all condition modules to improve user experience and data quality.
- Conditions coder updated.
- Conditions output classification updated in 2020–21 to improve use of conditions data. Further updates to include codes for COVID-19 added in 2022.
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Asthma | - New questions to collect data on frequency of use of over the counter medication.
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Cardiovascular | - Update to terminology within questions to exclusively use 'cardiovascular' instead of 'heart'.
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Diabetes and High Sugar Levels | |
Sight and Hearing | - Minor question wording changes.
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Other Long Term Conditions | - Update to the Conditions Coder and minor changes to condition names and examples.
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Medications | |
Over the Counter medications | - New module to collect data on frequency of use of over the counter paracetamol and ibuprofen; and triptans for those diagnosed with migraine.
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Physical Measurements (height, weight, waist and blood pressure) | - Due to COVID-19, the procedures for collecting physical measurements have been adapted to account for increased hygiene and social distancing measures, including a move to collection via self measurements only (rather than via ABS Interviewers) and use of single use waist measurement tape
- Removal of output and imputation of measurements for persons who self reported pregnancy.
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Opt in to National Health Measures Survey (NHMS) | - New module to collect whether respondent would like to participate in the National Health Measures Survey (NHMS) and Australian Health Biobank (AHB).
- NHS respondents aged 12 years and over were invited to voluntarily provide blood and/or urine samples (urine samples only for children aged 5–11) by visiting their local pathology collection centre. Results will feed into the NHMS, which will be a separate release expected in late 2024.
- Respondents aged 18 years and over were invited to participate in the AHB.
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Consent to Follow Up (Contact Details) | - Not collected in 2022 National Health Survey.
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Phones | - Not collected in 2022 National Health Survey.
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