The EFSA Comprehensive European Food Consumption Database
9. Full dataset
Description
The database is a collection of food consumption data organized according to these characterizations:
Level of food groups: there are 7 different levels of aggregation, for instance at level 1 you can find data on consumption of “alcoholic drinks” going up with the levels (2,3, until 7) you will find more specific products for instance: “wine”, “beer”, going further up you could find more and more specific product such as “red wine” and “Belgian beer”, etc…
Total Population vs. Consumers only: In this case you can use the statistic from only the consumers or from the entire (total) population. Going on with the example of the alcohol you can find above all the consumers of alcohol that a certain percentage of them drink wine (let’s say 70%), another percentage drink beer, etc.. Or you could say that above the total population a certain percentage do not drink alcohol at all, a certain drink wine (in this case the percentage will be reduced because also the people that do not consume alcoholic drinks is considered)
Chronic vs Acute consumption: Summary statistics from the Comprehensive Database have been published for both chronic and acute consumption. For calculation of chronic consumption, intake statistics have been calculated based on individual average consumption over the total survey period, whereas for acute consumption, statistics have been calculated based on every single reporting day. For example, if subjects in a population had recorded their consumption by means of a 7 day food record, the average intake of each individual over the 7 days was calculated. The average value for each subject was then considered only once when calculating the ―chronic‖ average consumption and other statistics related to chronic consumption at population level. On the other hand, ―acute‖ consumption figures were calculated using each reporting day independently, and in summing eating occasions for a considered food. All days from each subject (7 days in the above reported example) were used to calculate the ―acute‖ average consumption and the other statistics related to acute consumption at population level.
Gram/Day and Gram/Kg of body weight per day: This indicate if the data on consumption is relative to a gram per day assumption or to a gram per kg of body weight per day.
Format
Additional Information
- Status
- completed
- Release Date
- 2018-06-15
- Resource Type
- Information feed