Given the importance of dietary data to guide food systems policies, the Food Security and Nutrition Statistics Team (ESS) and the Food and Nutrition Division (ESN) are collaborating in a joint effort to help reducing the significant dietary statistics gap and to strengthen the synchronization of available data sources.
The Food and Diet Domain Project aims to harmonize the processing of dietary data, to increase the dissemination and improve utilization of comparable food availability, food consumption, and diet quality statistics and indicators.
This initiative will bring together, for the first time, data from individual food consumption surveys, women’s dietary diversity, Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys (HCES), Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) and Food Balance Sheets (FBS); and disseminate them through a common “Food and Diet” domain on FAOSTAT.
Linking these data to food composition data is one of the key steps required prior to the dissemination through the domain. Therefore, preparing the “Nutrient Conversion Tables” (NCT) will require discussions among the team members to establish a standardized procedure to be applied to all datasets.