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ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC PAPERSquantitative researchParticipant addresses were geocoded to residentialaddress points using the Critchlow Ltd Geostangeocoding engine. Using ESRI ArcGIS Desktop9.3, addresses were assigned and aggregatedwithin 2006 census meshblocks. Each geocodedpoint was assigned the New Zealand DeprivationIndex 2006 (NZDep2006) decile of its correspondingmeshblock. 25Statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS(version 14.0). Biomedical and psychosocial datawere analysed using paired samples t-tests andchi-squared comparing baseline and 12-monthdata. To assess whether there was any differencein results between the three different regionswhere programmes were run one-way, ANOVAtests were performed using data relating tochanges in fruit and vegetable consumption.ResultsResponse ratesTable 1. Reported consumption of key food groupsFood group Time-point nIndexscore*Range ofscoresBreads and cereals Baseline 261 4.3 1–8p-valuePost-programme 206 5.2