Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database (QFAHPD)

Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database (QFAHPD) QFAHPD-1 QFAHPD-2 Documentation

Methodology Behind the Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database

Overview

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. There are two versions of the database; please read the complete documentation before downloading the data.

QFAHPD Documentation

Data

QFAHPD-1
	Prices for 52 food groups based on both Universal Product Code (UPC) and random-weight (non-UPC) food purchases.
		Codebook-1		Documentation
QFAHPD-2
	Prices for 54 food groups based on UPC food purchases.
		Codebook-2		Documentation

Related Resources

Methodology Behind the Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database—provides an indepth discussion of how the QFAHPD database was constructed, along with basic findings about food price variation across geographic areas and price differentials within food groups between markets.

On the Accuracy of Nielsen Homescan Data—evaluates data on food purchases by matching purchase records from 2004 Homescan data with data from a large grocery retailer.