Food Consumption Surveys

Just how accurately can adequate nutrient intake be measured? Do food consumption surveys really reflect the national diet? This book includes a brief history of dietary surveys, and an analysis of the basis of dietary evaluation and its relationship to recommended dietary allowances. A discussion of how usual dietary intake may be estimated from survey data, a recommended approach to dietary analysis, and an application of the analysis method is presented. Further, an examination of the impact of technical errors, the results of confidence interval calculations, and a summary of the subcommittee's recommendations conclude the volume.

FAO pub. Manual on data analysis of food consumption survey data for developing countries - covers the analysis of important food and nutrition problems, data reduction, evaluation of samples, variation in measures of food consumption, household data comparisons with other data, etc.; includes notes on some technical obstacles. Bibliography, statistical tables.