Food and Nutrition Surveys

Find information and resources about national nutrition and food monitoring efforts in the US, including:

• USDA Food Surveys Research Group:
  • "What We Eat in America" 
  • What's in the Foods You Eat Search Tool
  • Food Patterns Equivalents Database 2017-2018
• Community Nutrition Mapping Project
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
• Healthy People
• 2018 State Indicator Report on Fruits and Vegetables

The mission of USDA's Economic Research Service is to anticipate trends and emerging issues in agriculture, food, the environment, and rural America and to conduct high-quality, objective economic research to inform and enhance public and private decision making.

Topics:

• Food Choices and Health
• Food and Nutrition Assistance

Data Products:

• FoodAPS National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey
• Research Projects and Publications
• Food and Nutrition Assistance Research Reports Database
• Research Reports and Articles Database
• Food Environment Atlas

Reports and Publications:

• ERS Annual Report (FY 2017) on Food, Nutrition, and Food Safety
• Food & Nutrition Assistance Publications
• Food Choices and Health Publications
• Amber Waves Online Magazine

Provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically.

The HEI is a summary measure of overall diet quality.

Nutrition monitoring in the United States involves a complex system of coordinated activities that provides information about the dietary, nutritional, and related health status of Americans. This monograph, last published in 2000, provides an overview of the different surveys and programs sponsored by federal and state agencies.

Find data and questionnaires from several surveys including the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) and the Diet and Health Knowledge Survey.

Offers four data systems that allow creation of free, customized data reports, including state-level data for nearly 100 measures of child well-being.

Biennial report to the Nation on the condition of children in America. Includes description of the changing population, family, and environmental context in which children are living.

Variety of research reports, statistics, and data related to USDA Child Nutrition programs.

Ready to use cross-sectional data from the 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2000, and 2004 China Health and Nutrition Survey.