Abstract
Dietary diversity is considered crucial for household welfare and also for carrying out other development activities. The emerging interest in household dietary diversity against dietary quantity presents an opportunity to estimate household food security. Based on secondary data, probit regression model was used to estimate the determinants of household dietary diversity in Bangladesh. The result suggests that household size, literacy of household head, total amount of land, married household head, total amount of remittance received and income of household head were major determinants in attainment of high dietary diversity. Government policies and intervention programs targeting the above variables may improve household dietary diversity which in turn may improve household food security.
Highlights
Dietary diversity is considered crucial for household of access to adequate and diversified diet has been welfare and for carrying out other development activities
A) Household Dietary Diversity Scores For this study, “Yes” and “No” categories were used in the secondary dataset to measure dietary diversity score (DDS)
The scores were counted from each food group and summed up and DDS were calculated based on the FAO guidelines for measuring household and individual dietary diversity
Summary
Dietary diversity is considered crucial for household of access to adequate and diversified diet has been welfare and for carrying out other development activities. The emerging interest in household dietary diversity against dietary quantity presents an opportunity to estimate household food security. Probit regression model was used to estimate the determinants of household dietary diversity in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has made a steady progress in the determinants in attainment of high dietary diversity. Expansion of food production but due to the rising 25. Government policies and intervention programs targeting the above variables may improve household dietary diversity which in turn may improve household food security. Introduction exist mainly because of the lack of purchasing power and of access to food especially for the ultra -poor
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