First Food and Nutrition Survey of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires 2011 Argentina

General:
1) To know the food and nutritional situation of children, adolescents, women of childbearing age, mothers of children up to 6 months and older adults who reside in the City of Buenos Aires.
2) To complement and strengthen the permanent monitoring system of food and nutritional indicators carried out by the Ministry of Social Development under the framework of Law 105 of the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires.
3) To obtain information about the use of health services and the coverage of GCBA programs.

Specific:
1) To characterize the population according to socioeconomic and demographic variables.
2) To stratify the population according to established criteria to analyze living conditions.
3) To identify the socioeconomic, demographic, nutritional, health and lifestyle factors that influence the food and nutritional situation of the target population.
4) To describe behaviors, habits and cultural factors that affect the acquisition, preparation and consumption of food at home.
5) To know the nutritional status of the population groups under study through anthropometric indicators.
6) To estimate the adequacy of the intake of macronutrients and micronutrients to the international nutritional recommendations in each of the groups studied.
7) To estimate the prevalence of risk factors for non-communicable chronic diseases.
8) To explore the different sources of information about topics related to health and nutrition used by each group studied.
9) To estimate compliance with the health controls and practices established in each age group.
10) To obtain information about the use and access of the population to the programs implemented by the GCBA.