Stata v17 replication file for "Food inflation and child undernutrition in low and middle income countries" by Derek Headey and Marie Ruel

This readme file describes the Stata v17^TM “do file” (code file) for statistical analysis for "Food inflation and child undernutrition in low and middle income countries " by Derek Headey & Marie Ruel. This do file can be used to replicate the analysis in the study mentioned above, published in Nature Communications. The study uses a combination of Demographic Health Survey (DHS) data for child, maternal, household level variables and national level indicators on real food price changes drawn from FAOSTAT, as well as conflict and climate variables. In summary, this is a large multi-country DHS dataset merged with FAO food and total consumer price indices (CPIs) and various other national level control variables. These are DHS surveys from 2000 onwards only. 

The authors cannot publicly share the DHS data but can share it upon request, provided we can obtain approval from the DHS implementers. To make a request to access the data for this paper, please email Derek Headey at d.headey@cgiar.org. Alternatively researchers can access the raw DHS data from: https://dhsprogram.com/data/available-datasets.cfm and the country level indicators from the Food and Agriculture Organisation Consumer Prices data portal (https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/CP) as well as The World Bank World Development Indicators (https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators) for obtaining data on various control variables.