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Construct the food groups consumption score (from Minimum Dietary Diversity 6-23 months (MDD))

get_foodscore.Rd

Identification of individual 6-23 months old children who meet the minimum dietary diversity requirement require the information about how many food groups the child consumed yesterday (8 groups in total).

Usage

get_foodscore(
  breastmilk,
  grains,
  pulses,
  dairy,
  meat,
  eggs,
  vita_fruveg,
  oth_fruveg
)

Arguments

breastmilk

child received breastfeeding or not

grains

child consumed grains food group or not

pulses

child consumed pulses food group or not

dairy

child consumed diary and milk product food group or not

meat

child consumed meat food group or not

eggs

child consumed eggs food group or not

vita_fruveg

child consumed vitamin A-rich fruits and vegetables or not

oth_fruveg

child consumed fruits and vegetables or not

Value

the integer value at continuous scale (0-8 as the IYCF food groups have 8 food groups).

Author

Nicholus Tint Zaw

Examples


# Individual Food Group Variable Construction

 df <- iycfData

# General Dummy variable generator function
 breastmilk <- round(runif(nrow(df), min = 0, max = 1), 0)
 grains <- round(runif(nrow(df), min = 0, max = 1), 0)
 pulses <- round(runif(nrow(df), min = 0, max = 1), 0)
 dairy <- round(runif(nrow(df), min = 0, max = 1), 0)
 meat <- round(runif(nrow(df), min = 0, max = 1), 0)
 eggs <- round(runif(nrow(df), min = 0, max = 1), 0)
 vita_fruveg <- round(runif(nrow(df), min = 0, max = 1), 0)
 oth_fruveg <- round(runif(nrow(df), min = 0, max = 1), 0)

 # Calculate Food Consumption Score
 food_score <- get_foodscore(breastmilk, grains, pulses, dairy, meat,
                             eggs, vita_fruveg, oth_fruveg)