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

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New data on the awareness, use and understanding of Canada's Food Guide are now available from the rapid response component of the Canadian Community Health Survey – Annual Component. The data were collected from all provinces in May and June 2012. The questions in the module aimed to measure people's awareness, use and understanding of Canada's Food Guide, as well as how Canadians access food guide products and healthy eating information. The addition of these questions to the Canadian Community Health Survey was sponsored by the Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Health Canada.

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number survey number3226.

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