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Cooking numbers and eating words: using data to investigate food, lifestyle and health


Date: 9 March 2007
Location: Leeds Town Hall

This conference on Friday 9 March 2007, is being held as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. This day aims to present both evidence and foster debate on the social benefits, constraints and implications of food, health and lifestyle.  The focus of the day is to learn more about how empirically-derived data sources can provide evidence on many aspects of this policy and media hot topic - obesity, organic and sustainable farming, processed versus natural foods, consumer behaviour, the food industry.

The main focus of the day is evidence-based research – evidence from data sources that are sponsored by ESRC investments held in the UK.  ESRC, through its flagship data service, ESDS, provides widespread and easy access to many key UK government and longitudinal data sources.  The Health Survey for England (HSE), the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS), the Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS) and the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) regularly survey the UK population and all contain material on food, nutrition and health.  Qualitative sociological researchers are also researching and debating on food choices and lifestyle - the results of which find their way into the ESDS collection. ESDS also provides access to comparable international data sources such as the Eurobarometers and international macro databanks which provide information on issues like food quality, product safety and industrial demand in the food industry.  Producers and policy users of these wide ranging data will be speaking.  The day will be of appeal to policy makers, academics, journalists and the public alike.

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