Area of activity Development of a Community-wide network for sharing health data
Title of Project DAFNE IV - European Food Availability Databank based on Household Budget Surveys
Organization Name: Public Health Nutrition and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit,  Dept. of Hygiene and Epidemiology,  School of Medicine,  University of Athens Address: 75, M. Asias Str. GR - 11527 ATHENS Telephone / Fax: Web site: www.nut.uoa.gr E-mail: rc@elke.uoa.gr Contact person: Antonia TRICHOPOULOU (Project coordinator) WHO Collaborating Centre, Department of Epidemiology, Medical School, University of Athens Tel : +30 210 746 2073 Fax: +30 210 746 2079 e-mail: antonia@nut.uoa.gr	Countries participating
	Member States
	X	Austria	X	Germany		The Netherlands
		Belgium	X	Greece	X	Portugal
		Denmark		Ireland		Spain
	X	Finland		Italy	X	Sweden
		France		Luxembourg		United Kingdom
	EFTA / EEA Countries
		Iceland		Liechtenstein		Norway
	Candidate Countries
		Bulgaria		Latvia		Slovakia
		Cyprus		Lithuania		Slovenia
		Czech Republic		Malta		Turkey
		Estonia		Poland
		Hungary		Romania
	Others
Starting date and  duration of project - 01/10/2002 - 24 months	Budget Total cost: 380.496,55 € Subsidy from the Commission: 249.700,86 €
Statement of the project's aims Food, socio-economic and demographic data collected in the household budget surveys (HBS) of 9 EU Member States have been harmonised and integrated in the cost-effective DAFNE databank, which currently includes data from 45 surveys of the 9 EU Member States and thus allows the identification and time-trends of European dietary patterns and their socio-demographic determinants. The proposed project aims at: Expanding the DAFNE databank to ultimately form a database including food data from at least 3 HBS from each of the 13 European countries (12 EU Member States and Norway). More specifically, the project aims at assembling and harmonising at the minimum 15 HBS datasets (minimum 3 datasets per country) from the following five EU Member States: Austria, Finland, Germany, Portugal and Sweden. The newly harmonised datasets will be incorporated in the DAFNE database. Developing the methodological approach for estimating the daily availability of macro- and selected micro-nutrients, using food data from the national HBS. The proposed methodological approach will be pilot tested on the data of the Greek HBS undertaken in 1987, 1994 and 1998 and already stored in the DAFNE database. Developing an EU-applicable protocol for collecting information, in the context of the HBS, on meals taken outside the household; addressing thus a limitation in the use of HBS data for nutritional purposes.
Outcomes of the project Interim report, (2003) (189 KB) Executive summary of the final report (355 KB) Final report (765 KB) Annexes of the final report: Annex 1 (346KB) : Household Budget Survey data collection methodology Annex 2 (571KB): Food Aggregation Tables Annex 3 (144KB): Comparable categories of socio-demographic data Annex 4 (68KB): Summary of replies to the inventory on data for eating out Annex 5 (55KB): Protocol for collecting information on eating out in the HBSs Annex 6 (172KB): Mean daily individual availability of 15 main food groups Annex 7a (139KB): Nutrient estimations based on the Greek HBS data Annex 7b (250KB): 3rd Plenary Meeting, Vienna, May 2004 Annex 8 (173KB): Minutes of the plenary meetings Annex 9 (104KB): Short reports of the bilateral working sessions National reports: trends in food availability in: Austria (290KB) Finland (209KB) Germany (154KB) Portugal (913KB) Sweden (411KB)   Glossy publication of the final report: Pamphlet : A databank for monitoring trends in food habits in Europe (685KB) Network for the Pan-European Food Databank based on Household Budget Surveys (1,5MB) The DAFNE Food Classification System Operationalisation in 16 European countries (1,5MB) Online database:   DafneSoft v3.0.: In this new version, data from Austria, Finland, Germany, Portugal and Sweden analysed in the DAFNE IV project are included, leading to a food database of 16 European countries.