ArticlePublic health nutrition2015
Field validation of food outlet databases: the Latino food environment in North Carolina, USA.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Quantifying the foodscape: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the validity of commercially available business data.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
- Designing and Evaluating a Hierarchical Framework for Matching Food Outlets across Multi-sourced Geospatial Datasets: a Case Study of San Diego County.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2024Article
- Web Data Mining: Validity of Data from Google Earth for Food Retail Evaluation.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2021Article
- Assessing the Retail Food Environment in Madrid: An Evaluation of Administrative Data against Ground Truthing.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Factors associated with supermarket and convenience store closure: a discrete time spatial survival modelling approach.Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, (Statistics in Society) · 2018Article
- Assessing the validity of commercial and municipal food environment data sets in Vancouver, Canada.Public health nutrition · 2017Article
- A step-by-step approach to improve data quality when using commercial business lists to characterize retail food environments.BMC research notes · 2017Article
- Combined measure of neighborhood food and physical activity environments and weight-related outcomes: The CARDIA study.Health & place · 2015Article
- Spatial-temporal modeling of neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics and food stores.American journal of epidemiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectiveObtaining valid, reliable measures of food environments that serve Latino communities is important for understanding barriers to healthy eating in this at-risk population.
designThe primary aim of the study was to examine agreement between retail food outlet data from two commercial databases, Nielsen TDLinx (TDLinx) for food stores and Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) for food stores and restaurants, relative to field observations of food stores and restaurants in thirty-one census tracts in Durham County, NC, USA. We also examined differences by proportion of Hispanic population (</≥23·4 % Hispanic population) in the census tract and for outlets classified in the field as 'Latino' on the basis of signage and use of Spanish language.
settingOne hundred and seventy-four food stores and 337 restaurants in Durham County, NC, USA.
resultsWe found that overall sensitivity of food store listings in TDLinx was higher (64 %) than listings in D&B (55 %). Twenty-five food stores were characterized by auditors as Latino food stores, with 20 % identified in TDLinx, 52 % in D&B and 56 % in both sources. Overall sensitivity of restaurants (68 %) was higher than sensitivity of Latino restaurants (38 %) listed in D&B. Sensitivity did not differ substantially by Hispanic composition of neighbourhoods.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that while TDLinx and D&B commercial data sources perform well for total food stores, they perform less well in identifying small and independent food outlets, including many Latino food stores and restaurants.
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