A comparison of recall and diary food expenditure data

Matthew Brzozowski, Thomas Crossley () and Joachim Winter ()

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: Recall food expenditure data, which is the basis of a great deal of empirical work, is believed to suffer from considerable measurement error. Diary records are believed to be more accurate. We study an unusual data set that collects recall and diary data from the same households and so allows a direct comparison of the two methods of data collection. The diary data imply measurement errors in recall food expenditure data that are substantial, and which do not have the properties of classical measurement error. However, we also present evidence that the diary measures are themselves imperfect.

Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (19)

Published in Food Policy 72(2017): pp. 53-61

Downloads: (external link)
https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49874/1/10.1016_j.foodpol.2017.08.012.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: A comparison of recall and diary food expenditure data (2017)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lmu:muenar:49874

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics Ludwigstr. 28, 80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tamilla Benkelberg ().