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Examining Food Store Scanner Data: A Comparison of the IRI InfoScan Data with Other Data Sets, 2008–2012

  • by David Levin, Danton Noriega, Chris Dicken, Abigail Okrent, Matt Harding and Michael Lovenheim
  • 10/17/2018
  • TB-1949

Overview

USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) has purchased proprietary retail scanner data (InfoScan) since 2008 to examine food policy questions. To determine how representative the data are, this report compares the number of stores and sales revenue reported in the InfoScan data with the same information from other datasets.

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