Sun Exposure Survey 2016: reports, methodology and questionnaire

The Health Promotion Agency undertakes the Sun Exposure Survey every three years. This research was undertaken as part of the national monitoring of sun exposure and related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours. In addition to monitoring, this project helps to inform the activities of the skin cancer prevention sector, which includes HPA’s Sun Safety programme. The Sun Exposure Survey (SES) is an ongoing, triennial survey that has been conducted since 1994. Data collection waves prior to 2016 also involved the Cancer Society of New Zealand and the University of Otago.

Documents include:

• a demographic report, which summarises findings for the entire sample of participants
• a youth report, which summarises results from participants under 18
• an older adult report, which summarises results from participants aged 55+
• a methodology report, which includes a full account of methodology used in this survey
• a questionnaire, which covers the full set of questions used in the 2016 SES.

For a more comprehensive discussion of the results and time trend analysis from the adult sample, see Sun Exposure Survey 2016: Adult topline time series report.