ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the food and nutrition insecurity of Brazilian families, according to indicators consumption nutritional status, by location situation households investigated using 2008/2009 Household Budget Survey. Methods Inadequate macronutrients dystrophies (underweight, short stature or overweight) in at least one family member were used as indicators, geographical household...

BRIEF INTRODUCTION The first aim of this research project is to realize a probabilistic matching among data sets on households’ income, consumption, lifestyle habits and perceived difficulties in their daily life. The Italian National Statistical Institute (ISTAT) releases the following survey data: EU-SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Conditions), HBS (Household Budget Survey) and ADL (Asp...

Foods naturally contain a number of contaminants that may have different and long term toxic effects. This paper introduces a novel approach for the assessment of such chronic food risk that integrates the pharmakokinetic properties of a given contaminant. The estimation of such a Kinetic Dietary Exposure Model (KDEM) should be based on long term consumption data which, for the moment, can only...

Estimation of food consumption and nutrient intake is a topic of growing interest. Currently, both in Europe and in Spain, there are numerous sources of information on food consumption, that we provide information on different levels: national, household and individual, all of them are useful, but including some limitations, mainly arising from the lack of accurate data on food purchased but no...

As the other chapters in this volume demonstrate, the evaluation of the poverty impact of social and economic policy creates substantial data needs, from a variety of sources. Data needs range from those at the household level, to program and project specifics on inputs and outputs, to the administrative records maintained by line ministries to national budget allocations and expenditures. Ofte...

We conduct a systematic empirical study of cross-sectional inequality in the United States, integrating data from the Current Population Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, and the Survey of Consumer Finances. In order to understand how different dimensions of inequality are related via choices, markets, and institutions, we follow the mapping suggested ...

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about economic inequality in India during the post-reform period. We analyze consumption inequality through the hitherto neglected lens of nonfood expenditure. Using household level consumption expenditure data from the quinquennial “thick” rounds of the NSS, we show that inequality within food and non-food groups has declined, even as overall expend...