A catalogue of UK household datasets to monitor transitions to sustainable diets
A catalogue of UK household datasets to monitor transitions to sustainable diets
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DOI：
10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100344
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发表时间：
2020-03-01
影响因子：
8.9
通讯作者：
Monteiro, Diogo M. Souza
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作者：
de Grave, Remco Benthem;Rust, Niki A.;Monteiro, Diogo M. Souza
越来越多的国际共识认为，目前的粮食消费模式是不可持续的，需要进行全球变革。了解向更可持续饮食过渡的机制需要在个人或家庭层面进行系统的长期监测。虽然许多国家收集了关于食物支出和膳食摄入的面板数据，但这些数据集往往不是为了监测饮食可持续性方面的进展而设计的，因此，利用这些数据来了解饮食如何或为何变得更具可持续性可能具有挑战性。同样缺乏的是一个有组织的数据集目录或一个图书馆，在那里所有相关的数据都可以很容易地获得，以实现这种评估。我们的目的是识别、分类和描述英国现有的食物支出和饮食数据集，并评估它们在多大程度上可以用于监测向可持续饮食的过渡。我们发现，尽管有大量的数据集跟踪英国个人或家庭食品购买和消费，但这些数据集不适合理解个人如何以及为什么向可持续饮食过渡。除专有数据集外，大多数数据集仅每年收集数据，这使得在较短时间内了解精细尺度的行为变化具有挑战性。有机会在个人和家庭层面设计和实施开放获取的英国可持续饮食数据收集工作。这些努力可以与最近在数据科学方法和数字技术方面的创新相辅相成，例如饮食摄入跟踪器，这些创新与支持个人改变饮食行为一起，可能能够收集高质量的数据集。
There is growing international consensus that current patterns of food consumption are not sustainable and global change is needed. Understanding the mechanisms for a transition towards more sustainable diets requires systematic temporal monitoring at the individual or household level. Whilst many countries collect panel data on food expenditure and dietary intake, these datasets are often not designed to monitor progress towards dietary sustainability, therefore using them to understand how or why diets are becoming more or less sustainable can prove challenging. What is also lacking is a curated dataset catalogue or a library where all relevant data could be easily accessible to enable such evaluation. Our aim was to identify, classify and describe existing food expenditure and diet datasets available in the UK and to assess the extent to which they can be used to monitor transitions to sustainable diets. We found that despite the large number of datasets tracking UK individual or household food purchases and consumption over time, these datasets are not suited to understand how and why individuals are transitioning to sustainable diets. With the exception of proprietary datasets, most datasets only collect data annually, making it challenging to understand fine-scale behavioural change over shorter timeframes. There is an opportunity to design and implement an open-access UK sustainable diets data collection effort at the individual and household level. These efforts can be complemented with recent innovations in data science methods and digital technologies - such as dietary intake trackers - that, along with supporting individuals in their dietary behaviour change, may enable the collection of high-quality datasets.