Relative costs of 24-hour recall and Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys for nutrition analysis

The technical and resource demands of the most precise dietary assessment methods, 24-hour recall and observed-weighed food records, have proven impractical for most low- and middle-income countries, leaving nutrition policymakers with a woefully inadequate evidence base and compromising nutrition p...

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Autores principales: Fiedler, John L., Martin-Prével, Yves, Moursi, Mourad
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152865
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description The technical and resource demands of the most precise dietary assessment methods, 24-hour recall and observed-weighed food records, have proven impractical for most low- and middle-income countries, leaving nutrition policymakers with a woefully inadequate evidence base and compromising nutrition program effectiveness.To better understand the relative costs of informing food and nutrition policy-making using two different data sources: 24-hour recall survey data and Household Consumption and Expenditures Survey (HCES) data.A comparative analysis of the costs of designing, implementing, and analyzing a 24-hour recall survey and the cost of secondary analysis of HCES data.The cost of conducting a 24-hour recall survey with a sample of the size typical of HCES would be roughly 75 times higher than the cost of analyzing the HCES data.Although the 24-hour recall method is undoubtedly more precise, it has become self-evident that the practical choice for most countries is not between these two surveys, but between having data from less precise, but much more readily available and affordable HCES or having no nationally representative data. In the light of growing concerns about inappropriate fortification policies developed without data, there is an urgent need to begin working to strengthen HCES to provide more precise food and nutrition data. The best way forward is not likely to rest with one data source or another, but with the development of an eclectic approach that exploits the strengths and weaknesses of alternative surveys and uses them to complement one another.
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spelling CGSpace1528652024-11-15T08:52:05Z Relative costs of 24-hour recall and Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys for nutrition analysis Fiedler, John L. Martin-Prével, Yves Moursi, Mourad dietary assessment policies fortified foods household consumption and expenditures surveys nutrition nutrition policies The technical and resource demands of the most precise dietary assessment methods, 24-hour recall and observed-weighed food records, have proven impractical for most low- and middle-income countries, leaving nutrition policymakers with a woefully inadequate evidence base and compromising nutrition program effectiveness.To better understand the relative costs of informing food and nutrition policy-making using two different data sources: 24-hour recall survey data and Household Consumption and Expenditures Survey (HCES) data.A comparative analysis of the costs of designing, implementing, and analyzing a 24-hour recall survey and the cost of secondary analysis of HCES data.The cost of conducting a 24-hour recall survey with a sample of the size typical of HCES would be roughly 75 times higher than the cost of analyzing the HCES data.Although the 24-hour recall method is undoubtedly more precise, it has become self-evident that the practical choice for most countries is not between these two surveys, but between having data from less precise, but much more readily available and affordable HCES or having no nationally representative data. In the light of growing concerns about inappropriate fortification policies developed without data, there is an urgent need to begin working to strengthen HCES to provide more precise food and nutrition data. The best way forward is not likely to rest with one data source or another, but with the development of an eclectic approach that exploits the strengths and weaknesses of alternative surveys and uses them to complement one another. 2013-09 2024-10-01T13:55:17Z 2024-10-01T13:55:17Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152865 en Limited Access SAGE Publications Fiedler, John L.; Martin-Prével, Yves; and Moursi, Mourad. 2013. Relative costs of 24-hour recall and Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys for nutrition analysis. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 34(3): 318-330. https://doi.org/10.1177/156482651303400304
spellingShingle dietary assessment
policies
fortified foods
household consumption and expenditures surveys
nutrition
nutrition policies
Fiedler, John L.
Martin-Prével, Yves
Moursi, Mourad
Relative costs of 24-hour recall and Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys for nutrition analysis
title Relative costs of 24-hour recall and Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys for nutrition analysis
title_full Relative costs of 24-hour recall and Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys for nutrition analysis
title_fullStr Relative costs of 24-hour recall and Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys for nutrition analysis
title_full_unstemmed Relative costs of 24-hour recall and Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys for nutrition analysis
title_short Relative costs of 24-hour recall and Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys for nutrition analysis
title_sort relative costs of 24 hour recall and household consumption and expenditures surveys for nutrition analysis
topic dietary assessment
policies
fortified foods
household consumption and expenditures surveys
nutrition
nutrition policies
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152865
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