Canadian Community Health Survey, 2012: Rapid response on the awareness, use and understanding of Canada's Food Guide

• Main Authors: Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Statistics Canada
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Borealis 2012
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Alcohol use; Canada's Food Guide; Chronic conditions; Contacts with Health Professionals; Dwelling and household; Education; Fruit and vegatable consumption; General health; Health care utilization; Health utilities; Income; Labour force; Physical activities; Sociodemographic characteristics; Smoking; Canada; First Nations; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/2ZPS2L

The CCHS is a cross-sectional survey that collects information related to health status, health care utilization and health determinants for the Canadian population. It relies upon a large sample of respondents and is designed to provide reliable estimates at the health region level. The CCHS has the following objectives: Support health surveillance programs by providing health data at the national, provincial and intra-provincial levels; Provide a single data source for health research on small populations and rare characteristics; Timely release of information easily accessible to a diverse community of users; Create a flexible survey instrument that includes a rapid response option to address emerging issues related to the health of the population. Since 2007, data for the CCHS are collected yearly instead of every two years. While a sample of approximately 130,000 respondents were interviewed during the reference periods of 2001, 2003 and 2005, the sample size was changed to 65,000 respondents each year starting in 2007. The Canada's Food Guide rapid response module was added to the CCHS Annual Component to collect specific information on the knowledge and use of the Canadian Food Guide by the Canadian population in general and by the First Nations, Inuit and Métis. The questions in the module aimed to collect information on general eating habits, overall knowledge of the guide, whether the guide was used to implement healthy eating habits, the format of the Guide that was used (paper or electronic), as well as how Canadians access food guide products and healthy eating information. In 2007, the Canada's Food Guide for the general population was revised and a new Guide for First Nations, Inuit and Métis was published. Health Canada, who sponsored this rapid response, intends to use these data to better understand the links between knowledge and use of Canada's Food Guide, eating habits and health behaviors. These data will also provide additional information about those who know and use the food guide. The ...