Decomposition of changes in the consumption of macronutrients in Vietnam between 2004 and 2014

Thi Huong Trinh (), Michel Simioni () and Christine Thomas-Agnan
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Thi Huong Trinh: TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Michel Simioni: Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier

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Abstract: Vietnam is undergoing a nutritional transition like many middle-income countries. This paper proposes to highlight the socio-demographic drivers of this transition over the period 2004-2014. We implement a method of decomposition of between-year differences in economic outcomes recently proposed in the literature. This method allows decomposing the composition effect which is due to the differences in observable covariates across years, in direct contributions of each covariate and effects of their interactions. This method is applied to VHLSS data. The results show the importance of between-year changes in the distributions of covariates on between-year changes in the distributions of total calorie intake and calorie intakes from proteins and fat. This effect is more contrasted in case of calorie intake from carbohydrates. Food expenditure and household size appear to be the main drivers of the observed evolutions in macronutrients consumption. On the contrary, the urbanization of the population has a negative effect on these evolutions, except on fat consumption. The effect of urbanization is, nevertheless, less than the positive effects of the previous two variables.

Keywords: food consumption; decomposition method; vietnam; nutritional transition; macronutrient (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-08-01
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Published in 10. Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting (VEAM 2017), Development and Policies Research Center (DEPOCEN). Hanoi, VNM., Aug 2017, Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville, Vietnam. 23 p

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Journal Article: Decomposition of changes in the consumption of macronutrients in Vietnam between 2004 and 2014 (2018)
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