Swiss federal authorities

Created on : 29.10.2025 Last modified : 12.11.2025

National nutrition survey on children and adolescents menuCH-Kids

Switzerland, 2023 - 2024

Reference ID

10.16909-fsvo-dataset-202510-menuch-kids

DOI

Producer(s)

University Center for Primary Care and Public Health - Unisanté, Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office

Collections

Research datasets

Metadata

Study Description Documentation Data access

Questionnaires

  • Questionnaire menuCH-Kids

    XLSX 727.69 KB Download

    Date 2025
    Language French, German, Italian, English
    Description This file shows all the questions asked in the Questionnaire (questionnaire_dataset), including the branching logic.
    Translation in four languages are available.
    Download https://www.studydata.blv.admin.ch//catalog/12/download/127

Technical documents

Other Materials

  • Biobank Regulation

    PDF 929 KB Download

  • Categorisation of Food in the Swiss Food Pyramid 2024

    PDF 354.04 KB Download

  • Categorisation of Food in the Swiss Food Pyramid 2024 (Excel format)

    XLSX 24.3 KB Download

  • MenuCH-Kids - SAMPLE MARGINS

    XLSX 26.78 KB Download

    Description This is a decriptive file to inform about the structure of the 6-17-years-old population in Switzerland across various variables and allow assessment of how representative the participants of the menuCH-Kids survey were prior to weighting.

    In each tab, the actual number of people participanting to each part of the survey is reported (all questionnaires: N_quest; visit in survey center: N_visit; blood draw: N_blood).
    In addition, N_margin corresponds to the average targeted population size in Switzerland, used by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) to draw the invited sample for the survey, and represents the number of Swiss residents assumed to be covered by the participants in the survey.
    As the survey was condected over a full year to account of the saeson variation in food consumption and behaviour, the individuals invitated to participate were sampled over four invitation waves, to have short timeframe between sampling and invitation. N_margin is the mean of the four waves.
    Of note, the sum of participants' statistical weights in the data does not exactly match the N_margin values, as weights were trimmed at median + 5 * IQR (Interquartile Range).

    The full sampling and weighting strategy used to improve representativeness of the population is described in the document "Weighting strategy".
    Download https://www.studydata.blv.admin.ch//catalog/12/download/200

  • Thesaurus Facets and Descriptors for Globodiet

    XLSX 56.48 KB Download

    Language German, French, Italian, English
    Download https://www.studydata.blv.admin.ch//catalog/12/download/150

  • Thesaurus Food categories for Globodiet

    XLSX 36.65 KB Download

    Date 2025
    Language French, German, Italian, English
    Description This file shows all the food categories, subcategories and subsubcategories used in the Globodiet application.
    This file accompanies the Consumption_dataset
    Download https://www.studydata.blv.admin.ch//catalog/12/download/128

  • Weighting strategy

    PDF 166.64 KB Download

Study description in PDF

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