Improving Data to Analyze Food and Nutrition Policies (2005) / Chapter Skim
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The ever more pressing need for timely data to help guide policy making places a heavy burden on survey data collections sponsored by the federal government, which are not generally geared toward producing data in a short time frame. In the face of increasing obesity in the United States, there are new calls to understand the economic and social factors behind food consumption and nutrition, creating a need to link data on food consumption to data from various sources on food prices, time use, financial resources, food assistance program participation, availability of food outlets and foods, and other potentially relevant factors.
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in USDA, not only in funding the development of the Flexible Consumer Behavior Survey Module to include in NHANES and a food and eating module to include in the American Time Use Survey, but also in undertaking research with scanner data and other initiatives to make the best use of and to enhance the available data infrastructure for food and nutrition-related policy planning and analysis.
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Perhaps the FCBSM could serve the needs of FDA, or perhaps key question content could be made the same between the FCBSM and relevant FDA surveys so that cross-survey comparisons and validation would be possible. The proposed interagency group should consider how to develop a complete review of the analytical work that has already been done on assessing the effects of food and nutrition programs in order to identify the information needed to address unanswered questions.
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For example, ERS could usefully have lead agency responsibility for research to develop high-quality, relevant data to understand the economics of food consumption, factors that affect shopping practices, diet and health knowledge, and related consumer behaviors, and how food-related behaviors affect food consumption and socioeconomic well-being. Such a program should include: assessments of the validity and reliability of alternative datasets; research on linkages of relevant survey data with relevant administrative records, neighborhood characteristics, and retail and household scanner data; and the development of protocols for design and testing of new survey content.
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currently under development by ERS and NCHS will significantly enhance the ability of NHANES to support a wide range of food and nutrition-related research. The module is planned to include questions on food shopping, food expenditures, self-assessment of diet quality, frequency of eating food away from home, attitudes toward and knowledge about diet and food safety, use of food labels, and safety-related food preparation practices.
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Linkages with such sources as area price indexes, census information, and various geographic databases could add metropolitan and neighborhood characteristics that would be helpful for contextual analysis of food consumption behavior. Assessment of the costs, benefits, and methodology for data linkages should be an important component of research and development by ERS in cooperation with other relevant agencies.
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USE OF SCANNER DATA Scanner datasets from retail stores and from household panel scanner surveys include very detailed information on the purchase of specific foods, brands, quantities, and the prices paid. Because they are produced for firms interested in the latest market trends, they are usually available within a matter of weeks or months.
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, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, and scanner datasets and household food consumption data collected by market research firms. There are many other federal datasets that, while they primarily serve other purposes, include some relevant information and could be useful for food and nutri
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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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