Percentage of mothers with children age 6-23 months who received IYCF counseling in the last 6 months by a healthcare provider or community health worker.
Coverage:
Population base: Women with youngest child age 6-23 months living with them (KR file)
Time period: 6 months preceding the interview
Numerator: Number of women whose youngest child age 6-23 months living with them and who received IYCF counseling in the last 6 months.
Denominators: Number of women whose youngest child age 6-23 months is living with them. See Calculation of denominator in Percentage of children fed the minimum dietary diversity, the minimum meal frequency, the minimum milk feeding frequency, and the minimum acceptable diet for the selection for the denominator.
Variables: KR file.
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caseid |
Case Identification |
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b5 |
Child is alive |
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b9 |
Child lives with whom |
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b19 |
Current age of child in months (months since birth for dead children) |
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v486 |
Counseled in the last 6 months about how or what to feed their child |
Numerator divided by denominator, multiplied by 100.
Missing values and “don’t know” excluded from numerators in all percentages but included in denominators.
Percentages are based only on children living with the mother. Children living elsewhere are excluded from both the numerators and the denominators.
If the last-born child is deceased or not living with the mother, the counseling question is asked of the prior child born in the two years preceding the interview.
WHO and UNICEF 2021. Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices: definitions and measurement methods. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240018389
WHO. 2003. Guiding Principles for Complementary Feeding of the Breastfed Child. Geneva: WHO. https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/752
International Food Policy Research Institute. 2018. Report of the Joint Consultation on Approaches to Measure Coverage of Nutrition Counseling Interventions, Washington DC September 17 2018. Washington, DC: Alive and Thrive, DataDENT, WHO-UNICEF Technical Expert Advisory Group on Nutrition Monitoring, International Food Policy Research Institute. https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/nutritionlibrary/team---technical-expert-advisory-group-on-nutrition-monitoring/meeting-reports/joint-consultation-nutrition-counselling-interventions-report.pdf
DHS-8 Tabulation plan: Table 11.11
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