Child Food Poverty Indicators: Dietary Diversity for Ages 6-23 Months

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) provides a dataset measuring the percentage of children aged 6–23 months who consumed foods from 3 or 4 out of eight defined food groups the previous day. The dataset was last updated on March 26, 2026. It is available in CSV and XML formats under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Modeling child food poverty prevalence based on dietary diversity scores.
• Tracking progress on nutrition targets based on the eight defined food groups.
• Analyzing correlations between food poverty and other socioeconomic indicators.

Strengths

• Data is provided by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ), an authoritative source.
• Dataset was last updated on March 26, 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)

Collection Method

Likely derived from household survey data.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:23:55.290418

Geography

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