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Master Nutrition Files

Household Daily Food Master File Description

The Household Daily Food Master File (NUTR1) contains information regarding the household foods that were obtained, consumed and discarded during the CHNS Diet Survey.  As a longitudinal file, this file contains multiple years of data for each household.  A household can have from 1 to 6 years of data as designated by the WAVE variable which contains the survey year, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2000 or 2004.  And each year will normally have multiple foods as designated by the FOODCODE variable.

This file consolidates 6 separate diet survey files:

1989

1991

1993

1997

2000

2004

C89NUTR1

C91NUTR2

C93NUTR2

C97NUTR2

C00NUTR1

C04NUTR1

Note: Food amounts were collected in jin (500 grams) from 1989 to 2000, and in grams since 2004. 

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Individual Daily Meal Master File Description

The Individual Daily Food Master File (NUTR2) contains information regarding the individual meals that were eaten during the CHNS Diet Survey.  As a longitudinal file, this file contains multiple years of data for each individual.  An individual can have from 1 to 6 years of data as designated by the WAVE variable which contains the survey year, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2000 or 2004.  As a longitudinal file, all data for a single individual is provided using that individual's most current ID, even when they have belonged to more than one household.

This file consolidates 6 separate diet survey files:

1989

1991

1993

1997

2000

2004

C89NUTR2

C91NUTR3

C93NUTR3

C97NUTR3

C00NUTR2

C04NUTR2

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Individual Daily Food Master File Description

The Individual Daily Food Master File (NUTR3) contains information regarding the individual foods that were consumed during the CHNS Diet Survey.  As a longitudinal file, this file contains multiple years of data for each individual.  An individual can have from 1 to 6 years of data as designated by the WAVE variable which contains the survey year, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2000 or 2004.  And each year an individual will normally have multiple foods per meal, multiple meals per day and multiple days (1 to 3) per year.  And as a longitudinal file, all data for a single individual is provided using that individual's most current ID, even when they had data from more than one household.

This file consolidates 7 separate diet survey files:

1989

1991

1993

1997

2000

2004

C89NUTR3

C91NUTR4

C93NUTR4

C97NUTR4

C00NUTR3

C04NUTR3



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Last Modified: 01/25/2007
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