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Estimation of age- and gender-specific food availability from household budget survey data
V G Vasdeki1, S Stylianou, A Naska
1Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. vasdekis@aueb.gr
Public Health Nutrition
|April 2, 2002
Abstract
Objective:
To derive estimates of age-gender specific food availability, based on data collected at household level.
Design:
Two alternative modelling approaches are described leading to linear and non-linear optimisation, respectively. The idea of penalised least squares is used for estimation of model parameters. The effect of household characteristics can be incorporated into both modelling approaches.
Setting:
Household budget survey data from four European countries (Belgium, Greece, Norway and the United Kingdom), circa 1990.