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Table 1 Comparison of HIES data sources

From: Trade as a structural driver of dietary risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in the Pacific: an analysis of household income and expenditure survey data

Country

Type of data

Type of expenditure data

Population included

Included in food expenditure and caloric data

Sample size

Year

Expenditure

Caloric estimates

Price

Percentage of expenditure

Lowest 3 expenditure deciles

Whole population

Restaurants

Number of households

Samoa [21]

✓

 

✓

 

✓

  

2012

2008

Solomon Islands [22]

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

 

✓

3822

2005/2006

Tonga [23]

✓

 

✓

✓

 

✓

✓

1640

2009

Vanuatu [24]

✓

✓

✓

 

✓

  

n/a

2010

Kiribati [25]

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

  

1161

2006