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... Where do people buy and consume food and how does food preparation affect food safety? To address these and related questions, the Economic Research Service (ERS)
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... federal datasets that are primary sources of data on food consumption, food expenditures, and dietary attitudes and knowledge: · the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) , conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics on a continuing basis since 1999; · the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII)
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... ; · longitudinal (panel) surveys that provide repeated measurements on the same individuals, permitting analysis of changing behavior over time, such as the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the Health and Retirement Study of people over age 50, and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the longest running nationwide survey of families' economic and demographic circumstances; · surveys to which special modules to capture emerging trends can be added relatively easily, which include the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
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... Recommendation 3: The proposed interagency working group on diet and food consumption data should consider priorities and methods for obtaining additional food and nutrition-related information in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The development of the NHANES Flexible Consumer Behavior Survey Module, which will include questions on food expenditures, diet and health knowledge, and other food and nutrition-related topics, should proceed, and research should be conducted on ways to obtain price information for inclusion in NHANES.
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... Recommendation 6: The proposed interagency working group on diet and food consumption data should consider ways to enhance the usefulness of other federal datasets for food and nutrition-related policy analysis and research. Such datasets include the Current Population Survey, the American Time Use Survey, panel surveys that follow families, children, and the elderly over time, and surveys that are designed to include modules to track emerging trends.
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