Severe Food Poverty Indicators for Children Aged 6-23 Months

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) provides a dataset measuring the percentage of children aged 6–23 months who consumed foods from 0, 1, or 2 out of eight defined food groups during the previous day. The dataset was last updated on March 26, 2026, and is available under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license. It is hosted on the HDX platform.

Use Cases

• Assessing the prevalence of severe food poverty based on the 0-2 food group consumption metric.
• Monitoring child nutrition outcomes based on the defined eight food groups.
• Analyzing trends in infant and young child feeding practices based on daily consumption data.

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 compiled from household surveys or monitoring programs.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:23:54.719265

Geography

Geographic scope is not specified in the provided metadata.