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Boneless Red Meat, Poultry, and Fish from the Food Availability database shown in Pounds Date Type: Year; Country: USA; Commodity: Leading meat (boneless weight): Per capita availability; Attribute: Total leading meat-Pounds Sage Data. Sage Publishing Ltd Sage Data [electronic resource]

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United States Department of Agriculture
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Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, Inc. 2025
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Boneless-weight estimates serve as a proxy for consumption and are mainly used to make comparisons of quantities of meat types consumed. Analysts compare quantities based on boneless rather than retail weight to estimate whether, for example, more turkey is consumed than fish. Data on fish are available only on a boneless-weight basis. Factors for calculating boneless and trimmed weight were derived from USDA data on the quantity of boneless meat obtained from a carcass. These factors are based on values from ERS's Weights, Measures, and Conversion Factors for Agricultural Commodities and Their Products and current ERS estimates. The conversion factors for different kinds of meat are included in the supply and disappearance spreadsheets for particular meats (see the far right-hand column of Beef: Supply and Disappearance). The boneless-weight measure for red meat excludes all bones but includes separable fat sold on retail cuts of meat. Boneless-weight figures for poultry are derived from RTC figures, using USDA food composition data. The food availability data compiled by the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) reflect the amount of food available for human consumption in the United States. The dataset includes estimates for over 200 commodities, including individual fruits, vegetables, grains, added sugars and sweeteners, dairy products, nuts, meat, poultry, and seafood. ERS's food availability data are often referred to as food disappearance data because the data represent the resulting food supply after food "disappears" into the food marketing system. ERS calculates the residual of a commodity's total annual available supply after subtracting measurable uses, such as farm inputs (feed and seed), exports, ending stocks, and industrial uses. The annual data series includes per capita food availability estimates, which are useful for studying food consumption trends because they are a proxy for actual food intake. Food availability data measure the use of basic commodities, such as wheat, beef, and shell eggs for food products at the farm level or an early stage of processing. They do not measure food use of highly processed foods (such as bakery products, frozen dinners, and soups) in their finished form. Ingredients of highly processed foods, however, are included as components of less processed foods, such as sugar, flour, fresh vegetables, and fresh meat. The food availability series is based on records of annual commodity flows from production to end uses. This involves the development of supply and disappearance balance sheets for each major commodity from which human foods are produced. In general, the total annual available supply of each commodity consists of the sum of production, imports, and beginning stocks. These three components are either directly measured or estimated by government agencies using sampling and statistical methods. For most commodity categories, measurable nonfood uses are farm inputs (feed and seed), exports, ending stocks, and industrial uses. The amount of food available for human consumption is calculated as the difference between available commodity supplies and nonfood use. In a few cases, supplies for human food use are measured directly and one of the other use components becomes the residual. Per capita food availability is calculated by dividing the annual total food supply during a specific time period by the U.S. total resident population plus Armed Forces overseas in a given year. Yearly population estimates are from the U.S. Census Bureau. For commodities not shipped overseas in substantial amounts, such as fluid milk and cream, ERS uses the resident population as the base. No adjustments are made for changes in the demographic makeup of the population.
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9781544332048 Sage Data CORE
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Statistical data with bibliographic citation and abstract.
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