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 |  |
| Food Consumption Score for Nutrition Quality Analysis | FCS-N |  |
| Household Dietary Diversity Score | HDDS | |
| Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women | MDD-W | |
| Women’s Dietary Diversity Score | WDDS | |
| Infant and Young Child Feeding | 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 | |
| Household Food Insecurity Access Scale | HFIAS | |
| Food Insecurity Experience Scale | FIES | |
| Reduced Coping Strategies Index | RCSI | |
| Livelihoods Coping Strategies Index | LCSI | |