Agreement between a web collaborative dataset and an administrative dataset to assess the retail food environment in Mexico.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Latin American countries are often limited in the availability of food outlet data. There is a need to use online search engines that allow the identification of food outlets and assess their agreement with field observations. We aimed to assess the agreement in the density of food outlets provided by a web collaborative data (Google) against the density obtained from an administrative registry. We also determined whether the agreement differed by type of food outlet and by area-level socioeconomic deprivation.

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, we analyzed 1,693 census tracts from the municipalities of Hermosillo, Leon, Oaxaca de Juarez, and Tlalpan. The Google service was used to develop a tool for the automatic acquisition of food outlet data. To assess agr

SUBMITTER: Ramirez-Toscano Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10983718 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature