Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre

1.	Nutrition Policies & Guidelines
2.	Nutrition Profile
3.	Strategic Plan
4.	Malnutrition
5.	Maternal & Child Nutrition
6.	Nutrition in Primary Schools
7.	Nutrition & HIV /AIDS
8.	Food Science & Nutrition
9.	Nutrition Indicators & Surveillance

Nutrition Indicators for TSED

Introduction
Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre (TFNC) is a participating institution in the Tanzania Socio-Economic Database (TSED). This is a national database and a tool for disseminating national data which could be used for among other things to monitor poverty reduction efforts. The database has been developed with a common understanding of improving the availability and timely dissemination of comprehensive statistical information in order to support policy analysis and decision-making of the Government and its development partners.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is responsible for the general administration including overseeing data management, quality control and release. NBS also provides technical support to the participating institutions using the database and facilitating the dissemination of results of national and other routine surveys. Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre and other participating Ministries and institutions are the main providers of the data.

Currently TSED include 12 nutrition indicators as shown below:

SN	Indicator	Definition
1.	Prevalence of Stunting	Percentage of Children 6-59 months of age whose height-for-age is below minus two standard deviations (<-2SD) from the median of the reference population.
2.	Prevalence of Underweight	Percentage of Children 6-59 months of age whose weight-for-age falls below minus two standard deviations (<-2SD) of the median of the reference population
3.	Prevalence of Wasting	Percentage of Children 6-59 months whose weight-for height falls below minus two standard deviations (<-2SD) from the median of the reference values.
4.	Prevalence of malnutrition among women of child bearing age	Percentage of non-pregnant women aged 15 - 49 years with Body Mass Index (BMI) below the 18.5 (under nutrition) and above 24.99 (overweight).
5.	Prevalence of Low Birth Weight	Proportion of live births that weigh below 2500g (2.5kg).
6.	Percent of children initiated breastfeed within 1 hour and within 24 hours of life	Percentage of infants who started breastfeeding within1 hour and within 24 hours of birth
7.	Percent of infants exclusively breastfed less than 6 months of age	Percentage of Infant less than 6 months of age who are receiving only breast milk.
8.	Percent of children breastfed up to 24 months of age	Percentage of children breastfed up to 24 months of age
9.	Percent of infants started complementary food at 6 months of age	Percentage of infants started receiving food at 6 months of age in addition to breast milk.
10.	Coverage of Vitamin A supplementation among children 6 - 59 months.	Percentage of children 6 - 59 months who have been supplemented with vitamin A capsules within the last 6 months preceding the survey
11.	Proportion of households consuming iodized salt	Proportion of households consuming adequately (15 ppm) iodized salt.
12.	Prevalence of low Hemoglobin levels	Proportion of children aged 0 - 59 months with Hb less than11g/dl , pregnant women with Hb less than11g/dl, and non-pregnant women with Hb less than 12 g/dl.