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title: "HES - Household Expenditure Surveys"
slug: "hes-household-expenditure-surveys"
updated: 2025-10-10T11:04:27Z
published: 2025-10-10T11:04:27Z
canonical: "vamresources.manuals.wfp.org/hes-household-expenditure-surveys"
---

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# HES - Household Expenditure Surveys

Although it is not their main objective, most national household expenditure surveys (HES) generate accessible and reliable food security information. To date, however, WFP has rarely used these rich data sources for conducting food security analysis. The purpose of this guide is to familiarise with the largely untapped pool of food security information available from HES datasets.

[HES - Household Expenditure Surveys](https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000022417/download/)