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Intrahousehold Food Intake Inequality by Family Roles and Age Groups

Nutrients · 2 authors, 5 centres

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It found that grandparents and children had significantly lower dietary diversity than fathers and adults, respectively, indicating intrahousehold food intake inequality by family role and age group.

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Statistical analyses, including Wilcoxon tests, Mann-Whitney tests, and Poisson regressions, were conducted. The central results are: 1) Poor and rural individuals had lower dietary diversity than non-poor and urban individuals. 3) Father and mother education positively influenced dietary diversity but did not resolve inequality.

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PMC10180906

Intrahousehold Food Intake Inequality by Family Roles and Age Groups

Nutrients

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Food intake inequality at the individual level is rarely analyzed in intrahousehold settings. We examine dietary diversity scores of household members with a focus on their family roles (fathers, mothers, sons, daughters and grandparents) and age groups (children, adults and elderly). Whereas theory suggests that members in a household should have equal dietary diversity by receiving a certain share of available foods, this research hypothesizes that they do not do so by their roles and/or age groups. We conduct questionnaire surveys, collecting sociodemographic information and dietary data by using a 24 h recall method of 3248 subjects in 811 households from 1 urban and 2 rural areas in Bangladesh. The statistical analysis demonstrates three findings. First, poor and rural people have lower dietary diversity than nonpoor and urban people, respectively. Second, grandparents (children) have lower dietary diversity than do fathers (adults), confirming the existence of intrahousehold food intake inequality by the roles and/or age groups, irrespective of poverty level and areas of residence. Third, father and mother educations are crucial determinants that raise the dietary diversity of household members; however, they do not resolve the inequality. Overall, it is suggested that awareness programs of dietary diversity shall be necessary with a target group of fathers and mothers for the betterment of intrahousehold inequality and health at the household level, contributing to sustainable development goals.

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Khatun Mst Asma, Koji Kotani. Intrahousehold Food Intake Inequality by Family Roles and Age Groups. Nutrients. (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15092126

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Khatun Mst Asma, Koji Kotani

1Research Institute for Future Design, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi 782-8502, Japan; [email protected]
2Department of Agricultural and Applied Statistics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202, Bangladesh
3School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi 782-8502, Japan
4Urban Institute, Kyusyu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
5College of Business, Rikkyo University, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan

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Jose Lara