USDA's National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey: Methodology for Imputing Missing Quantities To Calculate Healthy Eating Index-2010 Scores and Sort Foods Into ERS Food Groups
- by Lisa Mancino, Jessica E. Todd and Benjamin Scharadin
- 1/31/2018
Overview
Responses from USDA's FoodAPS survey are used to measure the nutritional quality of household food acquisitions against the 2010 Healthy Eating Index. ERS researchers have developed a method for imputing missing food quantities used to assess effects of economic and sociodemographic factors on respondents' food intake.
For sample programs to calculate HEI-2010 scores, see the FoodAPS data product.
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