Determining Minimum Milk Feeding Frequency

Identification of individual 6-23 months old children minimum milk feeding frequency for non-breastfeed children 6-23 months (MMFF)

Usage

get_mmff(q4, age, milk_frq)

get_milk_frq(q6bnum, q6cnum, q6dnum, q7anum)

Arguments

q4

The binary variable which mentioned that the child was receiving breastfeeding in the previous day (yes = "1", no = "0").

age

This parameter holds the information about child age in the month format.

milk_frq

the integer variable with continuous scale represents all the milk consumption frequency (beside breastmilk)

q6bnum

This parameter indicates the number of infant formula feeding the children received in previous days.

q6cnum

This parameter holds information about the frequency of milk related food feeding the child received yesterday (milk from animals, such as fresh, tinned, or powdered milk)

q6dnum

This parameter presents the information about the frequency of yogurt drinks the child received in the previous day.

q7anum

the integer variable with continuous scale represents the frequency of yogurt (solid or semi-solid) the child consumed yesterday.

Value

The output of the get_mmff and get_milk_frq variables includes the following added variable.

Variables	Description
mf_frq	continuous variables indicate non-breastfeed child consume number of milk and milk-product food feeding
mmff	binary variables indicate child get the minimum milk feeding frequency (mmff =1 ) or not (mmff = 0)

Author

Nicholus Tint Zaw

Examples

# Calculate Non-breastfeed Children Milk Frequency
 df <- iycfData

 df$milk_frq <- get_milk_frq(df$child_bms_freq, df$child_milk_freq,
                             df$child_mproduct_freq, df$child_yogurt)

# MMFF
df$mmff <- get_mmff(df$child_bfyest, df$calc_age_months, df$milk_frq)