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

Jennifer Coates, Beatrice Lorge Rogers, Alexander Blau, Jacqueline Lauer and Alemzewed Roba

Food Policy, 2017, vol. 72, issue C, 27-42

Abstract: Many researchers use data from Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys (HCES) to estimate individual food and nutrient intake when individual dietary data are not available. They assume that food is allocated within households according to members’ proportional energy requirements relative to an adult male (called an adult male equivalent, or AME). This study sought to validate AME-based estimates of individual consumption of calories, protein, iron, and animal source protein (ASP) across 10 age-sex categories, using data from Bangladesh and Ethiopia containing both household and individual-level consumption data. The study also assessed the accuracy of adjusting for meal partakers and physical activity levels (PAL), and compared energy-weighted AMEs to nutrient-specific AME predictions.

Keywords: Individual dietary data; Household consumption expenditure survey; Adult male equivalent; Nutrient intake; Nutrient adequacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.08.010

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