[Food consumption in relation to size of collectivity. Parallel time trends (author's transl)]

The consumption of the French with respect to the size of parishes and its evolution from 1965 to 1974 can be investigated, thanks to the survey of Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques on food consumption of a representative sample of households. During this period, with regard to the growing size of parishes and with respect to time, the percentage of lipidic calories has been raising, chiefly from the decrease in the consumption of vegetable foods which carries with it, at the same time, a decrease of the intake of glucids, dietary fibers and of the total energy intake. The shortcomings of data collecting explain only a small part of the discrepancies observed.