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Estimating the prevalence of nutrient inadequacy from household consumption and expenditure surveys

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 38 p.

Author Moltedo, A.; Álvarez-Sánchez, C.; Troubat, N.; Cafiero, C.;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-137148-0

Series title FAO Statistics Working Paper Series

Series number No. 30

To cite or share https://doi.org/10.4060/cc2780en

Synopsis (short abstract) Malnutrition is pervasive in both low- and middle-income countries. Yet, there is a scarcity of food intake data collected at the individual level to describe diets, determine the prevalence of inadequate nutrient consumption in populations, and shed light on how diets contribute to the malnutrition burden. In the absence of nationally representative individual-level food intake surveys, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, dietary data collected in household consumption and expenditure surveys (HCES) are being used as a second-best option to make inferences on the food and nutrient consumption of populations. This paper proposes an innovative approach to estimate variability in nutrient intake that uses food data collected in HCES to estimate the prevalence of nutrient inadequacy in a country. This method builds on the approach developed by FAO to estimate the indicator of inequality used in the Prevalence of Undernourishment used in the global monitoring of food insecurity.

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Moltedo, A., Álvarez-Sánchez, C., Troubat, N. & Cafiero, C. 2022. Estimating the prevalence of nutrient inadequacy from household consumption and expenditure surveys. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series, No. 30. Rome, FAO. 

https://doi.org/10.4060/cc2780en

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