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| Aliber, Michael. |
| This article seeks to contribute to an understanding of household-level food security in South Africa using publicly available household survey data from Statistics South Africa. The two datasets that are used in particular are the General Household Survey, an annual household survey that began in 2002, and the Income and Expenditure Survey of 2005/06. Because these surveys are not designed for the analysis of household-level food security, it is not possible to do the kind of detailed analysis made possible by purpose-designed surveys. However these datasets have some value in respect of understanding food security, namely: large sample sizes; the depth of complementary types of information that assist in contextualising the experience of food insecurity... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Household survey; Hunger; Food expenditure; Statistics South Africa; Consumer/Household Economics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58213 |
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| Carlson, Andrea; Lino, Mark; Fungwe, Thomas V.; Guenther, Patricia M.. |
| We examine the association between food expenditure and overall diet quality using a model where we assumed dietary quality is a function of health conditions, life style choices, total food expenditures, and socio-economic status. We use cross-sectional data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001-02 and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion Food Prices Database. Diet quality is measured using the USDA Healthy Eating Index-2005. Our findings suggest that there is no statistically significant association between total diet quality and diet cost for men, but a small association for women. Compared with diet cost, health conditions, life style choices, and socio-economic... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Diet quality; Food expenditure; HEI-2005; Food prices data; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49259 |
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