Infant and young child feeding practices. Collecting and Using Data: A Step-by-Step Guide. Care USA, Jan 2010.
Author: Care USA
Year: 2010
Resource type: Official
A practical step by step guide to including WHO standard indicators of infant and young child feeding practices in surveys. It includes excel spreadsheets for data entry and analysis, and a standard questionnaire.
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final-iycf-guide-iycf-practices.pdf (PDF, 778kb)
final-report-card-template.xls (Excel, 307kb)
final-practice-data-file.xls (Excel, 41kb)
final-sample-size-iycf.xls (Excel, 20kb)
final-generic-iycf-questionnaire-3-04-10.doc (Word, 113kb)
final-chi-square-tests.xls (Excel, 625kb)
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Care USA (2010). Infant and young child feeding practices. Collecting and Using Data: A Step-by-Step Guide. Care USA, Jan 2010.. www.ennonline.net/iycfdataguide
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