PMID- 23193776
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121220
LR  - 20170214
IS  - 0379-5721 (Print)
IS  - 0379-5721 (Linking)
VI  - 33
IP  - 3 Suppl
DP  - 2012 Sep
TI  - Should Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys (HCES) be used for 
      nutritional assessment and planning?
PG  - S235-41
AB  - BACKGROUND: Household Consumption and Expenditures Surveys (HCES) are routinely 
      conducted in several countries on nationally representative samples, often on a 
      regular basis. The HCES have been considered as a potential alternative to more 
      expensive surveys of individuals'food intakes for use in nutritional assessment 
      and in planning programs such as food fortification. HCES gather information on 
      household food availability (purchased, produced, or received as gifts) and use 
      over a given period of time, often the past week or month. OBJECTIVE: To discuss 
      the potential usefulness of HCES consumption data for nutritional assessment and 
      planning for populations of households and individuals within the households. 
      CONCLUSIONS: There are several limitations to the HCES, most notably the 
      difficulty of estimating the intrahousehold allocation of foods and therefore of 
      quantifying the actual food intake of individual household members. Another 
      concern is the lack of information on the variability of consumption over time, 
      making it difficult to estimate the distribution of usual consumption, and thus 
      the prevalence of nutrient inadequacies or excesses. Other potential limitations 
      might be addressed by improvements to the HCES questionnaires, such as including 
      information on foods that are available but not consumed and those that are 
      consumed outside the home. Research is needed to better understand both the 
      strengths and the weaknesses of the HCES data when used to assess and plan 
      intakes at the household and individual levels.
FAU - Murphy, Suzanne
AU  - Murphy S
AD  - University of Hawaii Cancer Center, 1236 Lauhala St., Suite 407, Honolulu, HI 
      96813, USA. Suzanne@cc.hawaii.edu
FAU - Ruel, Marie
AU  - Ruel M
FAU - Carriquiry, Alicia
AU  - Carriquiry A
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - Food Nutr Bull
JT  - Food and nutrition bulletin
JID - 7906418
SB  - IM
MH  - Diet
MH  - *Diet Surveys
MH  - *Energy Intake
MH  - *Energy Metabolism
MH  - Evaluation Studies as Topic
MH  - *Family Characteristics
MH  - Food Supply
MH  - Food, Fortified
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Nutrition Assessment
MH  - *Nutrition Policy
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2012/12/01 06:00
MHDA- 2012/12/21 06:00
CRDT- 2012/12/01 06:00
PHST- 2012/12/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/12/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/12/21 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1177/15648265120333S213 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Food Nutr Bull. 2012 Sep;33(3 Suppl):S235-41. doi: 10.1177/15648265120333S213.