 Can household-based food consumption surveys be used to make inferences about nutrient intakes and inadequacies? A Bangladesh case studyCeleste Sununtnasuk and John L. Fiedler Food Policy, 2017, vol. 72, issue C, 121-131 Abstract: Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys (HCES) are increasingly being used to make inferences about individual food consumption, despite the fact that they collect food data at only the household level. Usually the analysis assumes that the household’s food is distributed among its members in direct proportion to each member’s share of the household’s total energy requirements; what is referred to as the adult male equivalent (AME) approach. Using the 2011–2012 Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey—which collected consumption data for all members of rural households using combined 24-hour recall (24HR) and food weighing methods—this study directly compared probability-based average estimates of intakes, intake gaps, and the prevalence of inadequacies as estimated by the 24HR and those calculated using the AME approach for energy and each of four micronutrients: vitamin A, iron, zinc, and calcium. Keywords: Household consumption and expenditure surveys; Adult male equivalent; Nutrient intake; Nutrient adequacy; Nutrition policy; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jfpoli:v:72:y:2017:i:c:p:121-131 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.08.018 Access Statistics for this article Food Policy is currently edited by J. Kydd More articles in Food Policy from Elsevier |
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