1. Food Balance Sheets
Food Balance Sheets and Household surveys

2. Learning objectives What FBS and HH surveys are
Understanding the differences between FBS and HH surveys
How FBS and HH surveys can complement each others

3. Outline FBS and HH surveys: main differences
Annual production questionnaire example
Household survey example

4. 1. FBS and HH survey: main differences
Concept used
Food available for human consumption
Food consumption
PROS
Not expensive
Snapshot of the overall agri. situation (not only food cons.)
Annual basis (comparable over the time)
Try to measure the actual cons.
More detailed re consumption per se:
Sub-national data
Gender breakdown
Economic-strata data
CONS
Sub-national level & population groups are not taken into account (e.g. gender, economic differences, etc.)
It doesn’t measure the actual consumption
Could be expensive
Held not that frequent
Need to have institutional capacity & trained personnel
No readily available
Data may not be fully captured (e.g. food consumed outside the house, see alcoholic beverages)
Data may not be representative
Concept used: Differences in the concepts, definitions in the methodology are the main reasons for the discrepancies.

5. 2. Annual Production Questionnaire example

6. 2. Annual Production Questionnaire example

7. 2. Annual Production Questionnaire example

8. 3. Household survey example

9. 3. Household survey example

10. References FAO webpage on Food Balance Sheets:
FAO webpage on Household surveys:
methods/fsreports/en/