There are two ways of gaining the required data:
> extracting it from your assessment of pregnant women’s overall dietary diversity
> assessing the consumption of vitamin A rich foods only
A) Extracting the Data from Overall Dietary Diversity Survey
1) If your survey involves collecting data for Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator, ensure that all consumed meals are initially categorized into the first fourteen food groups listed in FAO’s Guidelines for Measuring Household and Individual Dietary Diversity (page 8). Later, when calculating MDD-W, you can group them to the 10 food groups required by the MDD-W indicator.
2) Assess the number of pregnant women who consumed any of the foods included in the vitamin A rich food groups listed in FAO’s Guidelines (page 27).
3) Calculate the indicator’s value by dividing the number of pregnant women who consumed a vitamin A rich food the previous day or night by the total number of interviewed women. Multiply the result by 100.
B) Assessing the Consumption of Vitamin A Rich Foods Only
1) Follow the same methodology used by MDD-W for assessing the foods eaten during the previous day or night. However, instead of categorizing the consumed foods into the 10 food groups required by MDD-W, use the first fourteen categories listed in FAO’s Guidelines (page 8).
2) If a pregnant woman consumed any of the foods included in the vitamin A rich food groups listed in FAO’s Guidelines (page 27), she can be considered as having “consumed a vitamin A rich food”.
3) Calculate the indicator’s value by dividing the number of pregnant women who consumed a vitamin A rich food the previous day or night by the total number of interviewed pregnant women. Multiply the result by 100.
