Introducing dietry

Food security assessments utilise several dietary intake indicators as proxy measures for diet quality, diet sufficiency, and food availability either at individual or household level. Utilities for recoding and calculating these indicators support in establishing consistent and reliable results. This is the main motivation of the dietry package.

The dietry package provides/will be providing function sets for the following dietary intake indicators:

Indicators Shortcode Status
Food Consumption Score FCS FCS
Food Consumption Score for Nutrition Quality Analysis FCS-N FCS-N
Household Dietary Diversity Score HDDS HDDS
Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women MDD-W MDD-W
Women’s Dietary Diversity Score WDDS WDDS
Infant and Young Child Feeding IYCF IYCF

The package also includes/will include non-diet specific but food security-related indicators that are commonly assessed alongside dietary intake indicators in a food security assessment. These are:

Indicators Shortcode Status
Household Hunger Scale HHS HHS
Household Food Insecurity Access Scale HFIAS HFIAS
Food Insecurity Experience Scale FIES FIES
Reduced Coping Strategies Index RCSI RCSI
Livelihoods Coping Strategies Index LCSI LCSI