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Appendix A: Summary, First Meeting, April 16, 2018
Appendix A: Summary, First Meeting, April 16, 2018
Pages 147-158
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Panel members and meeting participants were informed about key program initiatives, including: plans for a possible second iteration of ERS's National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) ; plans to make greater use of proprietary data sources; and continued development of linkages across multiple data sources (survey and nonsurvey)
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And the action: to develop a multipronged data approach to meet research and policy needs. The most important policy areas and questions facing the Food Economics Division identified by Variyam are these: • Diets, Nutrition, and Obesity -- What foods do households buy, how much do they pay, where do they shop, and what is the nutri tional quality of these purchases?
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The motivation behind this multipronged data approach is that, even given the impressive amount (and quality) of data on food and food program participation that exists across federal statistical agencies, these sources are still insufficient to answer key questions about consumer choices, food acquisitions, industry response, and the role and effectiveness of government programs.
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nutrient information with IRI scanner data, an interagency effort that also involves USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy (CNPP) ; • using a geospatial data system to provide precise information about food retail environments; and • linking agency administrative records to survey data -- the purpose of the Next Generation Data Platform (as described in Chapter 2, this is an interagency effort with the Census Bureau and USDA's Food and Nutrition Services [FNS]
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A.3. CURRENT CFDS PROGRAMS, RESEARCH ACTIVITIES, AND PLANS Kicking off a session on "Current data programs, research activities, and program plans," David Levin and Megan Sweitzer, both ERS economists, described use of proprietary data by the Food Economics Division.
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The panel was asked to weigh in on these issues in its report, to provide a sense of the way these different commercial datasets may be used in stand-alone applications by researchers, and in what ways they may be combined with survey or other nonsurvey data in the CFDS. Andrea Carlson, ERS, elaborated on the project to integrate USDA's ARS nutrient information with IRI scanner data, an interagency effort also involving USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP)
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Ver Ploeg, chief of the Food Assistance Branch, ERS, presented options for linking survey data to food environment data. The motivation for these kinds of data linkages is to be able to address research questions concerning whether Americans' diets are out of balance with dietary guidelines and, if so, to what extent it is due to a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods and to what extent to the larger food environment (e.g., availability of stores and restaurants, variation in food prices, food policies, and community characteristics)
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Another, the Food Environment Atlas, distills more than 200 indicators of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so. The Food Environment Atlas includes county-level detail for most indicators, as well as indicators of store and restaurant availability, food assistance use, food prices and taxes, local foods initiatives, and health and physical activity.
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Goals for future iterations of FoodAPS would be to capture higher quality data, reduce nonresponse bias, reduce respondent burden and reporting fatigue, and reduce processing time. A key strategy for accomplishing these
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Survey) Consumer Panels Nielsen Homescan or the IRI Consumer Census NCHS CDC BLS Network Food-at-home ✓ purchases Food-away-fromhome purchases Free food acquisitions Household unit ✓ ✓ Food assistance ✓ program participation Demographics ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ = included = included with limitations SOURCE: Presentation to the panel by Elina T
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These presentations will inform panel members, and meeting participants more broadly, about key developments -- exploiting proprietary data, developing linkages across disparate data sources, adding supplements to exiting surveys, and continued planning for FoodAPS-2 -- pushing forward the CFDS data infrastructure. Research highlights emerging from various CFDS program initiatives will also be summarized.
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- Ploeg Chief, Food Assistance Branch, ERS Shelly Ver Next Generation Data Platform for Administrative Data (10 minutes) Mark Prell, - Senior Economist, ERS Questions from the panel; general discussion (10 minutes)
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