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title: "Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W)"
slug: "minimum-dietary-diversity-for-women-mdd-w"
updated: 2025-10-23T09:31:52Z
published: 2025-10-23T09:31:52Z
canonical: "vamresources.manuals.wfp.org/minimum-dietary-diversity-for-women-mdd-w"
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# Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W)

**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**

- [WFP MDDW Guidelines](https://newgo.wfp.org/documents/minimum-dietary-diversity-for-women-mdd-w-guidance-document)
- [mVAM Guidance: How to Collect MDD-W in remote surveys](https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000169705/download/)

**Data Collection tool**

The electronic version of the questions for this indicator can be found in [Survey Designer](https://www.surveydesigner.vam.wfp.org/) 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](https://github.com/WFP-VAM/RAMResourcesScripts/tree/main/Indicators/Nutrition-MDDW) and [sample data](https://github.com/WFP-VAM/RAMResourcesScripts/tree/main/Static/Nut_MDDW_Sample_Survey) are available on [github](https://github.com/WFP-VAM/RAMResourcesScripts) for calculating this indicator.

**For more information**

Consult [CRF indicator description](https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000146867/download/) sheet or please contact [hq.ramm@wfp.org](mailto:hq.ramm@wfp.org)