Food Consumption & Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

A. Hopkin, A. Rees-Russell & J. Parnham

Food Consumption and Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

• Healthy eating

• Food poverty

• The role of food mapping

Introduction

Food Consumption and Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

• Five-a-day

• Average fresh fruit and vegetable consumption is currently 3.7 portions per day.

• Purchases of fresh fruit and vegetables fell by 1.6% between 2002/3 and 2003/4.

• Energy intakes from fats, saturated fats and sugars are increasing.

• There are also regional and demographic variations in consumption:

• Regional patterns

• BME patterns

Healthy Eating

Food Consumption and Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

• Factors affecting food poverty:

• Low income

• Lack of access to reasonably priced shops

• Inadequate knowledge about healthy eating

Food Poverty

Food Consumption and Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

• Spatial variations in consumption

• Areas most at risk from:

• Lack of food choice

• Poor dietary habits

• Potentially poor health

The role of food mapping

Food Consumption and Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

• Thematic mapping

• Simplification into food groups

• Classification

Methodology

Food Consumption and Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

• Regional modelling developed by Cambridge University

• Expenditure & Food Survey data:

• Buyer rates

• Spend rates

• ACORN

• COICOP - 67 food products

CACI household expenditure data

Food Consumption and Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

IMD ranking.pdf

• Mapping of actual expenditure:

• Per capita and per household

• Location of spend and total expenditure

• Alcohol and tobacco

• Limitations

Food - thematic maps.pdf Total tobacco per capita.pdf

Thematic mapping

Food Consumption and Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

• In excess off 400 hundred food product maps have been produced

• The COICOP consumer classification:

• Bread and cereals

• Meat

• Fish and seafood Fish group.pdf

• Milk, cheese and eggs

• Oils and fats

• Fruit

• Vegetables

• Sugar, jam, honey, chocolate and confectionary

• Food products (not elsewhere classified)

Simplification into food groups

Food Consumption and Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

• Principal Components Analysis

• Cluster analysis

Food classification.pdf

Alcohol and tobacco classifications.pdf

Classification

Food Consumption and Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

Findings (Average per capita weekly expenditure)

£0.00

£0.50

£1.00

£1.50

£2.00

£2.50

£3.00

£3.50

£4.00

£4.50

£5.00

Bread Meat Fish Dairy Fats

Green

Amber

Red

Derby

Food Consumption and Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

Findings (Average per capita weekly expenditure)

£0.00

£0.50

£1.00

£1.50

£2.00

£2.50

£3.00

£3.50

Fruit Vegetables Sweets Coffee etc Non-alc bevs

Green

Amber

Red

Derby

Food Consumption and Food Poverty in Derby, 2004

• Accessibility / drive-time modelling

• Balance within the diet

• Local survey work

• Analysis of food consumption against socio economic data i.e health, income and education

• Possibility of an individual level classification

Future work