The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator was developed by FAO and partners to fill the need for a low-cost food-based indicator for assessing dietary diversity as a proxy for dietary micronutrient adequacy.

Promoting diverse diets is key to improving nutrition of women of reproductive age and can support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the World Health Assembly global nutrition targets for 2030. To fill the gap of food-based indicators, FAO developed the MDD-W indicator, in collaboration with several partners.

It includes guidance on the most accurate and valid methodologies on collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data on women’s dietary diversity, for use in research, impact assessment and large-scale, health and nutrition surveys such as the Demographic Health Survey (DHS), to generate nationally representative data, that are comparab...

The guide provides users of the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator with detailed guidance on its use and application along with information on common-pitfalls. MDD-W is a dichotomous indicator of whether or not women 15-49 years of age have consumed at least five out of ten defined food groups the previous day or night.

2024年8月4日 · Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) is a population-level food group-based indicator that captures dietary diversity, a core construct of healthy diets. MDD-W is used to estimate the proportion of non-pregnant women aged 15-49 years who consumed at least five

The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) is a population-level indicator of diet diversity validated for women aged 15-49 years old. The MDD-W is a dichotomous indicator based on 10 food groups and is considered the standard for measuring population-level dietary diversity in women of reproductive age.

The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women of reproductive age (MDD-W) indicator is a food group diversity indicator that has been shown to reflect one key dimension of diet quality: micronutrient adequacy, summarised across 11 micronutrients.

MDD-W assesses the proportion of women 15-49 years of age who have consumed at least five out of the ten pre-defined food groups the previous day or night. It is an indicator of a diet's micronutrient adequacy, an important dimension of its quality.

It provides a new tool for assessment, target-setting, and advocacy. The Women’s Dietary Diversity Project (WDDP) was designed to respond to the need for simple yet valid indicators of women’s diet quality, with a specific focus on micronutrient adequacy.

Appropriate uses of MDD-W • MDD-W can be used as a proxy to describe one important dimension of women’s diet quality in national and sub-national assessments • Targets can be set and prevalence of MDD -W can be compared to previous assessments, so long as survey methods are consistent and timing accounts for seasonality