Canadian Community Health Survey 2015: Nutrition Component, Food description codebook

The 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey-Nutrition (2015 CCHS-Nutrition) is a nationally-representative survey of the nutrition of people in Canada. The survey provides a rich source of detailed information on food consumption using a 24-hour (hr) dietary recall for the total sample and a repeat sub-sample, nutrient supplement intake, physical measurements, household food insecurity, and other topics that support the interpretation of the 24-hr recall. It also allows the evaluation of changes that have occurred since this survey was last done in 2004. Development and implementation of the 2015 CCHS-Nutrition has been a joint initiative between Health Canada and Statistics Canada, as also occurred for the 2004 CCHS-Nutrition. To facilitate comparison, the 2015 survey used methods that were very similar to the 2004 survey. The over-arching goal of the 2015 CCHS-Nutrition is to provide reliable, timely information about dietary intake, nutritional well-being and their key determinants, with the purpose of informing and guiding programs, policies and activities of federal and provincial governments. The specific objectives of the 2015 CCHS-Nutrition were to: - Collect detailed data on the consumption of foods and dietary supplements among a representative sample of Canadians at national and provincial levels. - Estimate the distribution of usual dietary intake in terms of nutrients from foods, food groups, dietary supplements and eating patterns. - Gather anthropometric (physical) measurements for accurate body weight and height assessment to interpret dietary intake. - Support the interpretation and analysis of dietary intake data by collecting data on selected health conditions and socio-economic and demographic characteristics. - Evaluate changes in dietary intake from the 2004 CCHS-Nutrition.