get_mmff: Determining Minimum Milk Feeding Frequency

In nutriverse/riycf: Utilities for Calculating Infant and Young Child Feeding Indicators

Determining Minimum Milk Feeding Frequency

Description

Identification of individual 6-23 months old children minimum milk feeding frequency for non-breastfeed children 6-23 months (MMFF)

Usage

get_mmff(q4, age, milk_frq)

get_milk_frq(q6bnum, q6cnum, q6dnum, q7anum)

Arguments

q4	The binary variable which mentioned that the child was receiving breastfeeding in the previous day (yes = "1", no = "0").
age	This parameter holds the information about child age in the month format.
milk_frq	the integer variable with continuous scale represents all the milk consumption frequency (beside breastmilk)
q6bnum	This parameter indicates the number of infant formula feeding the children received in previous days.
q6cnum	This parameter holds information about the frequency of milk related food feeding the child received yesterday (milk from animals, such as fresh, tinned, or powdered milk)
q6dnum	This parameter presents the information about the frequency of yogurt drinks the child received in the previous day.
q7anum	the integer variable with continuous scale represents the frequency of yogurt (solid or semi-solid) the child consumed yesterday.

Value

The output of the get_mmff and get_milk_frq variables includes the following added variable.

Variables	Description
mf_frq	continuous variables indicate non-breastfeed child consume number of milk and milk-product food feeding
mmff	binary variables indicate child get the minimum milk feeding frequency (mmff =1 ) or not (mmff = 0)

Author(s)

Nicholus Tint Zaw

Examples

# Calculate Non-breastfeed Children Milk Frequency
 df <- iycfData

 df$milk_frq <- get_milk_frq(df$child_bms_freq, df$child_milk_freq,
                             df$child_mproduct_freq, df$child_yogurt)

# MMFF
df$mmff <- get_mmff(df$child_bfyest, df$calc_age_months, df$milk_frq)

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