Indicator
Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women of reproductive age (MDD-W).
Description
The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women of reproductive age (MDD-W) indicator is a food group diversity indicator that has been shown to reflect one key dimension of diet quality: micronutrient adequacy, summarised across 11 micronutrients. The indicator constitutes an important step towards filling the need for indicators for use in national and subnational assessments. Such indicators must be relatively simple to collect and suitable for large surveys.
Resources
Data Collection tool
The electronic version of the questions for this indicator can be found in Survey Designer by selecting the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) sub-module of the Nutrition module or by selecting the indicator Minimum diet diversity for women and girls of reproductive age (MDD-W) in the indicator area Nutrition.
Indicator calculation
Scripts in R, STATA and SPSS and sample data are available on github for calculating this indicator.
For more information
Consult CRF indicator description sheet or please contact hq.ramm@wfp.org