Quarterly Stocks of Frozen and Chilled Meats Survey (FRMT)

Food availability of economy, ratio

Food availability refers to food available for consumption, expressed in edible weight, not adjusted for losses, such as waste and/or spoilage, in stores, households, private institutions or restaurants or losses during preparation.

Economy refers to the entire set of resident institutional units. It is divided into sectors that consists of groups of resident institutional units. An institutional unit is resident in a country when it has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of that country. It is said to have a centre of economic interest when there exists some location - dwelling, place of production or other premises - within the economic territory on, or from, which it engages, and intends to continue to engage, in economic activities and transactions on a significant scale either indefinitely or over a finite period of time.

The data for this variable are reported using the following measurements:

• Kilograms per person, per year
• Litres per person per year