Micronutrient Survey Analyser and other tools
The Micronutrient Survey Analyser is an online tool developed by the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety (WHO), that allows the user to perform comprehensive analysis of micronutrient status survey data for all populations. The analyses are aligned with the updated WHO guidelines on assessing micronutrient status of individuals and populations. The version V.01 of the tool provides results for four biomarker indicators: haemoglobin, ferritin, urinary iodine concentration (UIC) and iron deficiency anaemia (IDA). In the future, the tool will include other micronutrient biomarkers.
Micronutrient Survey Analyser
The Micronutrient Survey Analyser aims to promote best practices on data collection, analyses, and reporting of micronutrients biomarkers. It provides data quality checks which help the interpretation of the data. Currently, it offers the analysis of four indicators: haemoglobin, ferritin, UIC and IDA, taking into consideration their specific adjustments. This is a useful tool for individuals in institutions such as the Ministry of Health, National Statistics Offices, agencies or programs specialized in data collection, research centres, any other institution or key actors responsible for data analysis of micronutrient status indicators. It can particularly aid those who do not have access to standard statistical software to analyse surveys.
Package and macros
R and STATA macro coming soon
Related resources
Micronutrient survey manual
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Support
To report any software problems, please make a brief bug report containing the details on issue (product, kind of problem found, whether it appeared systematically or randomly, computer system, etc.). Send this brief report including the error log file to the following email address: nfsdata@who.int with the informative subject. Please note: This is not a helpline address.