The consequences of unemployment on diet composition and purchase behaviour: a longitudinal study from Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore and describe quantitatively the effect over time of unemployment on food purchase behaviour and diet composition.

Design

Longitudinal data from 2008-2012, with monthly food purchase data aligned with register data on unemployment measured as a dichotomous indicator as well as a trend accounting for the duration.

Setting

A household panel which registers daily food purchases combined with detailed nutritional information and registration of the duration of unemployment at individual level. The structure of the data set facilitates the detection of effects or associations between duration of unemployment and diet composition, purchase behaviour in terms of food expenditure, and share of food purchased on offer and in discounters while controlling fo

SUBMITTER: Smed S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10260895 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature