Exploring the socioeconomic determinants of dietary diversity in rural Bangladesh: A longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT: Despite significant progress in food and nutrition security over the past few decades, Bangladesh continues to face challenges, especially in rural areas. This study investigates the relationship between socioeconomic determinants and household dietary diversity using three waves of nationally representative longitudinal data from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (2011/2012, 2015, and 2018/2019). Dietary diversity was measured using the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) and the Food Variety Score (FVS), both indicators of dietary diversity and food security. We employed a Poisson fixed-effects regression model with robust standard errors to model the dietary diversity indicators, appropriate for the count nature of the data. The results show that households where the head

SUBMITTER: Prachee TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11867316 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature