Most of the studies on dietary diversity use a simple diversity score or count for measuring diversity. However, this does not indicate diversity within the group and its share with respect to other cereals or food items within a specific food group. Any sophisticated indices that help understanding richness, dominate, evenness or distribution within groups will be greatly appreciated.
Hi there
You can measure it with the dietary diversity one consumed in previous day against the daily recommended dietary diversity
Thank you for your suggestion.
Is there any other indicator than simple count of varieties of cereals? How do we give proportional distribution of one food item within the same food group?
Dr.Kirit,
As far as my knowledge goes there are no indicators for this aspect. Diet survey is the only way. But to the diet survey data you may apply statistical tests to measure the aspects you want to.
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