Examining the Complex Dynamics Influencing Persistent Acute Malnutrition in Turkana and Samburu Counties – A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study to Support Community Driven Activity Design (USAID Nawiri Wave V), NAWIRI WAVE V

KENYA, 2023
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

Dr. Estelle M. Sidze, Dr. Faith Thuita

CSV JSON

HH food consumption: Reduce number of meals eaten in a day? (hv401k)

Data file: usaid_nawiri_wave5_turkana

Overview

vald 1085

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range -9 - 9995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Now I am going to read several statements about your household food situation.

Behaviors: In the past 7 days, if there have been times when you did not have enough food or money to buy food, how many days has your household had to:

Reduce the number of meals eaten in a day?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Not in universe	3	0.3%
0		101	9.3%
1		70	6.5%
2		141	13%
3		130	12%
4		128	11.8%
5		117	10.8%
6		57	5.3%
7		331	30.5%
99	NA	7	0.6%
9995	Missing	0	0%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Question pretext

Household Food insecurity coping strategies

Question post text

Frequency: Number of days out of the past seven: (Use numbers 0 - 7 to answer number of days;
Use NA for not applicable)

Interviewer instructions

N/A

Description

Text

In the past 7 days, in the event there had been times when the household did not have enough food or money to buy food, how many days did the household had to reduce the number of meals eaten in a day?

Universe

Households with under 5 years old index children