PMID- 28462737 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170726 LR - 20191210 IS - 1475-2662 (Electronic) IS - 0007-1145 (Linking) VI - 117 IP - 7 DP - 2017 Apr TI - Comparison of food consumption in Indian adults between national and sub-national dietary data sources. PG - 1013-1019 LID - 10.1017/S0007114517000563 [doi] AB - Accurate data on dietary intake are important for public health, nutrition and agricultural policy. The National Sample Survey is widely used by policymakers in India to estimate nutritional outcomes in the country, but has not been compared with other dietary data sources. To assess relative differences across available Indian dietary data sources, we compare intake of food groups across six national and sub-national surveys between 2004 and 2012, representing various dietary intake estimation methodologies, including Household Consumption Expenditure Surveys (HCES), FFQ, food balance sheets (FBS), and 24-h recall (24HR) surveys. We matched data for relevant years, regions and economic groups, for ages 16-59. One set of national HCES and the 24HR showed a decline in food intake in India between 2004-2005 and 2011-2012, whereas another HCES and FBS showed an increase. Differences in intake were smallest between the two HCES (1 % relative difference). Relative to these, FFQ and FBS had higher intake (13 and 35 %), and the 24HR lower intake (-9 %). Cereal consumption had high agreement across comparisons (average 5 % difference), whereas fruit and nuts, eggs, meat and fish and sugar had the least (120, 119, 56 and 50 % average differences, respectively). Spearman's coefficients showed high correlation of ranked food group intake across surveys. The underlying methods of the compared data highlight possible sources of under- or over-estimation, and influence their relevance for addressing various research questions and programmatic needs. FAU - Aleksandrowicz, Lukasz AU - Aleksandrowicz L AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3644-1372 AD - 1Department of Population Health,London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,London WC1E 7HT,UK. FAU - Tak, Mehroosh AU - Tak M AD - 2Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture & Health,London WC1H 0PD,UK. FAU - Green, Rosemary AU - Green R AD - 1Department of Population Health,London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,London WC1E 7HT,UK. FAU - Kinra, Sanjay AU - Kinra S AD - 4Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology,London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,London WC1E 7HT,UK. FAU - Haines, Andy AU - Haines A AD - 1Department of Population Health,London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,London WC1E 7HT,UK. LA - eng PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170502 PL - England TA - Br J Nutr JT - The British journal of nutrition JID - 0372547 SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Consumer Behavior MH - Databases, Factual MH - Diet/*adverse effects/ethnology MH - Diet Records MH - Diet Surveys MH - *Diet, Healthy/ethnology MH - Family Characteristics/ethnology MH - Female MH - Humans MH - India MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Needs Assessment MH - Nutrition Surveys MH - *Patient Compliance/ethnology MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Self Report MH - Young Adult OTO - NOTNLM OT - 24HR 24-h recall OT - APCAPS Andhra Pradesh Child and Parent Study OT - FBS food balance sheets OT - HCES Household Consumption Expenditure Surveys OT - IHDS India Health and Development Survey OT - IMS Indian Migration Study OT - NNMB National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau OT - 24 h recall OT - Dietary intakes OT - FFQ OT - Food balance sheets OT - Household expenditure OT - India EDAT- 2017/05/04 06:00 MHDA- 2017/07/27 06:00 CRDT- 2017/05/03 06:00 PHST- 2017/05/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/07/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/05/03 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0007114517000563 [pii] AID - 10.1017/S0007114517000563 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Br J Nutr. 2017 Apr;117(7):1013-1019. doi: 10.1017/S0007114517000563. Epub 2017 May 2.