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Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women

Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) is a validated, dichotomous indicator of whether a woman of reproductive age consumed foods from at least five of ten defined food groups in the previous 24 hours, used as a population proxy for the micronutrient adequacy of women's diets. It was finalized in the 2016 FAO and FANTA guide A Guide to Measurement, following the consensus process documented by Martin-Prevel and colleagues that selected the ten-group list and the five-group cut-off from competing candidate indicators. Unlike the broader Individual Dietary Diversity Score, MDD-W is purpose-built for women aged 15 to 49 and yields a clean yes/no classification, making the share of women reaching the minimum a transparent, globally comparable diet-quality statistic for surveys and program monitoring.

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Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / food-agriculture-studies
  • FAO and FHI 360 (2016). Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women: A Guide to Measurement. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and USAID's Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA), Rome. · URL
  • Martin-Prevel, Y., Allemand, P., Wiesmann, D., Arimond, M., Ballard, T., Deitchler, M., Dop, M. C., Kennedy, G., Lee, W. T. K., & Moursi, M. (2015). Moving Forward on Choosing a Standard Operational Indicator of Women's Dietary Diversity. FAO, Rome. · URL
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Same method familyFood Consumption Scoremachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketIndividual Dietary Diversity Scoremachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyMinimum Dietary Diversity for Childrenmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyMultiple-Pass 24-Hour Dietary Recallmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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