Monitoring population diet quality and nutrition status with household consumption and expenditure surveys: suggestions for a Bangladesh baseline

Fiedler, John L.; Lividini, Keith

doi:10.1007/s12571-016-0631-5

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“…Since all foods contain many different nutrients, a nutritionally adequate diet can be comprised of multiple combinations of items. Foods in the same food group are especially close nutritional substitutes with similar nutrient compositions (Arimond et al 2010;Fiedler and Lividini 2017). Substitution among foods could potentially moderate seasonal fluctuation in the availability and cost of an adequate diet relative to the seasonal fluctuations in the availability and costs of individual foods and help establish a lower bound on seasonality.…”

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Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets

Schneider¹,

Christiaensen²,

Webb³

et al. 2021

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets

Schneider¹,

Christiaensen²,

Webb³

et al. 2021

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…(2) Household food expenditure surveys are increasingly used to monitor changes in dietary patterns internationally as individual nutrition survey data are often lacking and such nutrition surveys are expensive. (3)(4)(5)(6)(7) Employing food expenditure data, studies have suggested that urbanisation, industrialisation and globalisation among other factors have shifted dietary patterns towards more processed foods. (8)(9)(10)(11) Food-insecurity is also highly correlated with total household food expenditure, (12,13) and low-income households often lack access to nutritious foods.…”

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Using Household Economic Survey Data to Assess Food Expenditure Patterns and Trends in a Country with Notable Health Inequities

Nghiem¹,

Teng²,

Cleghorn³

et al. 2021

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Background Dietary factors are one of the most important risk factors for health loss worldwide, however there is limited information on dietary trends in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) and whether inequities in dietary patterns are changing.Methods We extracted data from the Household Economic Survey (HES), which was designed to provide information on impacts of policy-making in NZ. Three HES waves in 2006/07, 2009/10 and 2012/13 (n=9030) were used to examine the trends in household expenditure for key food groups by income-level and ethnicity, including food group expenditure (absolute amounts and as a proportion of total food expenditure, inflation adjusted).Results Overall, total household food expenditure per capita (CPI-adjusted) increased by 0.38% annually over this period (albeit not statistically significant). In absolute terms, low-income households spent around three quarters of what high-income households spent on food per capita. High-income households experienced a greater increase in expenditure on nuts and seeds (increasing the gap) and a greater reduction in expenditure on processed meat (reducing the gap because expenditure remained higher than in low-income households). There was increased expenditure over time on fruit and vegetables (NZ$273 per capita per year), nuts and seeds, and healthy foods (NZ$507) in Māori (Indigenous) households with little variations in non-Māori households. As a result, the relative health-related gap in food expenditure between Māori and non-Māori households declined over time. But there was little change in processed meat expenditure for Māori households and expenditure on less healthy foods also increased over time. Conclusions HES data were useful for understanding trends in food expenditure patterns, in the absence of nutrition survey data. Potentially positive expenditure trends for Māori were identified, which could indicate a shift towards healthier diets. However, food expenditure inequities in processed meat and less healthy foods by ethnicity and income continue to be substantial. Public policies that aim to support healthy diets for all could involve changes to the food environment and government support for culturally appropriate Māori-led interventions.

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“…Current analytic methods used to examine the effects of diet on child nutritional status at a population-level face limitations in dietary intake data [6,7]. The "gold standard" for measuring current food consumption are observed-weighed food records (OWFR) and 24-hour recall (24 h) surveys [6]. These methods require careful training of interviewers, rigorous technical and managerial support, and may be unrealistic at the population-level in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) [6].…”

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“…The "gold standard" for measuring current food consumption are observed-weighed food records (OWFR) and 24-hour recall (24 h) surveys [6]. These methods require careful training of interviewers, rigorous technical and managerial support, and may be unrealistic at the population-level in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) [6]. Historically, the principle data source for assessing population-level food consumption and undernutrition has been the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Food Balance Sheets (FBS).…”

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Are Household Expenditures on Food Groups Associated with Children’s Future Heights in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam?

Weingarten

Dearden²,

Crookston

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Household expenditure surveys, routinely conducted in low—and middle-income countries (LMICs), usually include questions pertaining to recent household expenditures on key food groups. When child anthropometrics are also available, such expenditure data can provide insights into household food purchasing patterns that are associated with subsequent child growth measures. We used data from 6993 children, born around 2001, from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam, from the Young Lives younger cohort. We compared associations between two weeks of household food expenditures (in PPP—Purchasing Power Parity adjusted dollars) on food groups and child height-for-age-Z score (HAZ) at subsequent time points to assess longitudinal associations. Total food expenditures, rural/urban residence, maternal and paternal schooling, and child sex were included in our adjusted models because they may affect the relations between household food group expenditures and future child HAZ. In Ethiopia, India, and Peru every extra PPP$ spent on fats was associated with 0.02–0.07 higher future HAZ. In Vietnam every extra PPP$ spent on starches, was significantly associated with a 0.01 lower future HAZ. Across countries, different patterns of food expenditure and procurement may be differentially critical for predicting child HAZ. Our results demonstrate how expenditures on specific food groups can be associated with children’s linear growth. This study provides additional evidence of the utility of longitudinal household food expenditure data in understanding child nutritional status.

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Monitoring population diet quality and nutrition status with household consumption and expenditure surveys: suggestions for a Bangladesh baseline

Cited by 13 publications

References 40 publications

Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets

Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets

Using Household Economic Survey Data to Assess Food Expenditure Patterns and Trends in a Country with Notable Health Inequities

Are Household Expenditures on Food Groups Associated with Children’s Future Heights in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam?

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