Replication files "Estimates of Nutrient Availability From the Integrated Household Surveys in Malawi" for our Working Paper “Are Malawian Diets Changing? An assessment of nutrient consumption and dietary patterns using household-level evidence from 2010/11 and 2016/17”
In December 2019, IFPRI Malawi published a Working Paper assessing the dietary patterns of Malawian households and their consumption of selected nutrients. Written by Rachel Gilbert, Todd Benson, and Olivier Ecker. The working paper analyzed data from the third (2010/11) and fourth (2016/17) rounds of the Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS).
To allow others to replicate or extend the analyses on nutrient consumption, we decided to make the underlying data files, which were constructed from the IHS3 and IHS4 datasets, available online. The dataset "Estimates of Nutrient Availability From the Integrated Household Surveys in Malawi" is now available on Dataverse. The data files can be analyzed using Stata 11 or later versions.
The package contains the following files:
- Household-level files with demographic characteristics and key variables of interest
- IHS3_HH.dta
- IHS4_HH.dta
- Individual-level files with recommended nutrient intakes (RNI) based on age and sex:
- IHS3_IND.dta
- IHS4_IND.dta
- Food-level files with food group classifications:
- IHS3_FOOD.dta
- IHS4_FOOD.dta
- Combined file used for testing means across survey years
- combined_HH.dta
- Codebook
- MW_hh_ntr_cnsmptn_IHS_codebook.xls.
Access the dataset here.
When reviewing the dataset for publication, the research team also took the opportunity to revise the original working paper to correct a few inconsistencies. The revised paper can be downloaded here.
