Consumptions calculation

The consumptions module offers a number of options and filters that specify how the consumption data should be included in the assessment.

• When individual sampling weights have been recorded in the data, the option ignore sampling weights specifies whether sampling weights are ignored or not in all calculations.

• It is possible to restrict to consumptions of specific foods.

• Depending on the exposure type (acute or chronic), the individuals (chronic) or individual-days (acute) can be filtered in several ways. It is possible to restrict the consumers or consumer days to consumers that consume or consumer days with a consumption. Use option consumers or consumer days only, and only consumers or consumer days with consumption of specific (focal) products are selected.

• For a chronic dietary or risk assessment (OIM, LNN or BBN), the individuals with less than N surveys days may be filtered out. Check setting Exclude individuals with less than N days, then./ option N (number of days in survey) appears. Specify a number, all individuals with a number of survey days less than N are filtered out.