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Food CPI and Expenditures: Recommended Data

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Food CPI Forecasts—Current forecasts for all food, food away from home, food at home, and selected food categories.

ERS Food Expenditure Tables—Food expenditures estimated by ERS from data that measure current sales or receipts by each type of store that sells food. This method provides the most direct measurement of food expenditures.

Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database (QFAHPD)—The Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database (QFAHPD) provides food price data to support research on the economic determinants of food consumption, diet quality, and health outcomes. The QFAHPD database was constructed from household food-at-home purchases reported in the Nielsen Homescan panel data. The database contains quarterly prices for up to 54 separate food groups covering regions and markets across all 48 contiguous States for 1999-2008. Two versions of the database are available depending on the availability of purchase information on random-weight food items.

Food Baseline Projections—Projections for the U.S. agricultural sector 10 years ahead, including crop production, agricultural trade, farm income, and food prices.


 

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Updated date: October 25, 2011