Summary of Food Surveys Made in the United States

Excerpts from the report: The food surveys that have been made in the United States are brought together in Tables 1 to 3 and classified as follows: 1, dietary studies; 2, cost and standard of living studies; 3, qualitative food surveys. The dietary studies in Table 1 are divided into two parts — first, the family dietary studies, and second, the dietary studies made in institutions. Tables 1 and 2 show that actual records in more or less detail have been kept of the food consumed by 2,924 families and that estimates of the amount of food consumed or the cost or both have been made by 66,242 families. In addition to the types of food surveys presented in the tables, food consumption figures have been calculated from production, import, export, and population figures.

报告摘录：美国开展的食品调查汇总于表1至表3，并分类如下：1.膳食研究（dietary studies）；2.成本与生活水平研究（cost and standard of living studies）；3.定性食品调查（qualitative food surveys）。表1中的膳食研究分为两部分——第一，家庭膳食研究（family dietary studies）；第二，机构膳食研究（institutional dietary studies）。表1和表2显示，已对2924个家庭的食物消费情况进行了不同程度的详细实际记录；此外，66242个家庭提供了食物消费量、消费成本或两者兼具的估算数据。除表中所列的各类食品调查外，还通过生产、进口、出口及人口数据计算得出了食物消费数据。