Special Issue, Food Policy                                                                     VOL U ME 72 | OC TOBER 2 0 17	




Food Counts: Measuring Food Consumption
	




and Expenditures in Household Consumption
and Expenditure Surveys
Guest editors: A. Zezza, C. Carletto, J. L. Fiedler, P. Gennari & D. M. Jolliffe


                             HOW MUCH
                             DID YOU EAT
                             YESTERDAY? And
                             how much did you
                             spend? On what
                             food products
                             exactly? And what
                             about last week?

These types of questions can be very hard
for anyone to answer, yet most analyses of
poverty, food security, and nutrition are based
on data collected using different variants
of these questions. Therefore, ensuring that
the way data on food consumption and
expenditures is collected yields accurate
information is essential for monitoring and
understanding the welfare of a society and
progress toward key development goals.

This special issue presents new evidence
on the impact of survey design choices
on the quality and availability of data
collected in household consumption
and expenditure surveys (HCES). The 13
studies in this issue (see reverse side of
flyer) analyze how different survey design
options affect the quality of the data being
collected and the implications for statistical
inference and policy analysis. The studies
offer practical insights into survey design
for national statistical offices and survey
practitioners worldwide, and also provide
policymakers with improved tools and a
better understanding of poverty, food security,
and nutrition for effective policymaking.



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Special Issue, Food Policy                                                                                                       VOL U ME 72 | OC TOBER 2 0 17	




Food Counts: Measuring Food Consumption
	




and Expenditures in Household Consumption
and Expenditure Surveys
TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S
Food counts. Measuring food consumption and expenditures in Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys (HCES).
Introduction to the Special Issue
A. Zezza, C. Carletto, J. L. Fiedler, P. Gennari & D. M. Jolliffe
The Impact of Household Food Consumption Data Collection Methods on Poverty and Inequality Measures in Niger
P. Backiny-Yetna, D. Steele & I. Yacoubou Djima
National Food Security Assessment Through the Analysis of Food Consumption Data from Household Budget and Expenditure Surveys:
The Case of Brazil’s Pesquisa De Orçamento Familiares 2008/09
A. Borlizzi, M. Eduardo del Grossi & C. Cafiero
Filling A Dietary Data Gap? Validation of the Adult Male Equivalent Method of Estimating Individual Nutrient Intakes from Household-
Level Data in Ethiopia and Bangladesh
J. Coates, B. Lorge Rogers, A. Blau, J. Lauer & A. Roba
The Impact of Survey Characteristics on the Measurement of
Food Consumption
P. Conforti, K. Grünberger & N. Troubat
A Comparison of Recall and Diary Food Expenditure Data
M. Brzozowski, T. F. Crossley & J. K. Winter
Lessons Learned from the National Household Food Purchase and
Acquisition Survey in the United States
J. A. Kirlin & M. Denbaly
Investigating the Significance of the Data Collection Period of
Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys for Food
and Nutrition Policymaking: Analysis of the 2010 Bangladesh
Household Income and Expenditure Survey
R. Engle-Stone, C. Sununtnasuk & J. L. Fiedler
How Can We Better Capture Food Away from Home? Lessons from
India’s Linking Person-Level Meal and Household-Level Food Data
J. L. Fiedler & S. Yadav
Decomposing Response Error in Food Consumption Measurement: Implications for Survey Design from A Randomized Survey
Experiment in Tanzania
J. Friedman, K. Beegle, J. De Weerdt & J. Gibson
Validating the Usage of Household Food Acquisition Surveys to Assess the Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods:
Evidence from Brazil
M. L. da Costa Louzada, R. Bertazzi Levy, A. P. Bortoletto Martins, R. Moreira Claro, E. Martinez Steele, E. Verly Junior, C. Cafiero & C. Augusto
Monteiro
Can Household-Based Food Consumption Surveys Be Used to Make Inferences About Nutrient Intakes and Inadequacies?
A Bangladesh Case Study
C. Sununtnasuk & J. L. Fiedler
Impact of Survey Design in the Estimation of Habitual Food Consumption: The Case of the 2007/08 Socio Economic Survey of
Mongolia Applied to Urban Households
N. Troubat & K. Grünberger
You Are What (and Where) You Eat: Capturing Food Away from Home in Welfare Measures
G. Farfán, M. E. Genoni & R. Vakis

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