Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys (HCES): A Primer for Food and Nutrition Analysts in Low- and Middle-Income Countries:
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The use of HCES data constitutes a generally unexploited opportunity to address the food consumption information gap by using survey data that most countries are already routinely collecting.Abstract:
BackgroundThe dearth of 24-hour recall and observed-weighed food record data—what most nutritionists regard as the gold standard source of food consumption data—has long been an obstacle to evidenc...read more
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Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys: Experimental results from Tanzania ☆
TL;DR: In this paper, a field experiment in Tanzania tested eight alternative methods to measure household consumption on a sample of 4,000 households and found significant differences between consumption reported by the benchmark personal diary and other diary and recall formats.
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TL;DR: In this article, a review of the food consumption and nutrition literature in the past 10 years is presented, with an emphasis on boy-girl differences in the distribution of food and other proximate factors within households.
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Measuring food security using household expenditure surveys
Lisa C. Smith,Ali Subandoro +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a new avenue for measuring food security, for both small and large populations, based on the data collected as part of household expenditure surveys on the quantities of food acquired by households.
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The Adult Male Equivalent Concept and its Application to Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys (HCES)
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