Utilizing the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) in conjunction with Circana’s OmniMarket Core Outlets and USDA’s Purchase to Plate Suite (PP-Suite), the authors calculated a household-level Food Retail Environment Healthfulness Quality (FREHQ) measure. The measure approximates a household’s exposure to a healthy food retail space, weighting each store within a 20-mile radius of a household by its distance from the household. This process is used to calculate the FREHQ measure for FoodAPS respondents. The FREHQ measure allows for greater household heterogeneity and more nuanced analyses of the influence of the food retail environment on household food spending, food security, and other diet-related health conditions. This FREHQ can be used in conjunction with the rich granularity provided by the 2012–13 FoodAPS data but is also intended to be calculated with updated data and used in conjunction with future FoodAPS data.
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Title
Utilizing the USDA’s National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey to Calculate a Household-Level Food Environment Measure
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https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/342466
Language
English
Total Pages
35
Note
The FREHQ was constructed for each household in the FoodAPS, a nationally representative survey fielded in 2012 and 2013. Store locations from the OmniMarket Core Outlets for the corresponding period were used to calculate straight-line and network distances between stores and households. All stores within a 20-mile radius of each household were included in the sample. USDA, Economic Research Service’s PP-Suite was used to link each food item in the OmniMarket Core Outlets with detailed nutrition information to calculate a store-level HEI-2020 score, which is used to measure store healthfulness in each household’s FREHQ measure. Descriptive statistics for the four versions of the FREHQ were compared with expected trends based on past literature. While the data used to calculate the FREHQ for this study are from 2012–13 FoodAPS data, which are the only available source of comprehensive national-level data on household food purchase and acquisitions behaviors that allow linking to rich geographic information, future FoodAPS users can easily update the FREHQ as new data become available. Appendix A: Discussion of Circana OmniMarket Core Outlets Coverage Compared with Nielsen’s TDLinx Coverage in FoodAPS Sampled Areas --- Appendix B: Methodology to Weight County-Level Characteristics by County Population.
