Food-at-Home Expenditures: Comparing Commercial Household Scanner Data From IRI and Government Survey Data
- by Megan Sweitzer, Derick Brown, Shawn A. Karns, Mary K. Muth, Peter Siegel and Chen Zhen
- 9/28/2017
Overview
ERS report compares proprietary household scanner data to nationally representative Government survey data and finds that reported household food-at-home expenditures in commercial scanner data were lower than in two Government surveys. The report details the comparison methodology and describes implications for using the commercial data in food economics research.
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