Instrument Identifier
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Canonical short identifiers for the data-collection instruments referenced by Profile records and by the valid_instruments metadata on item-level properties. Each code names a published questionnaire, screening form, or measurement protocol. Programs that deploy a national or program-specific instrument add a local code alongside the published ones.
Values
| Code | Label | Standard code | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
wg_ss | Washington Group Short Set on Functioning (WG-SS) | Six-question survey for adults that screens for difficulty in seeing, hearing, walking, remembering, self-care, and communication. Designed for census and general-population surveys. See bibliography entry washington-group-ss. | |
wg_es | Washington Group Extended Set on Functioning (WG-ES) | Extended survey for adults that adds upper-body and fine-motor items, additional vision and hearing items with environment qualifiers, pain, fatigue, affect (anxiety and depression), and aid-use. Used when richer functioning data is needed than the short set provides. See bibliography entry washington-group-es. | |
cfm_2_4 | UNICEF Child Functioning Module, ages 2-4 (CFM 2-4) | Caregiver-reported questionnaire on functioning for children aged 2 to 4 years. Always administered in proxy mode. Covers seeing, hearing, walking, fine motor, learning, communication, playing, and controlling behaviour. See bibliography entry washington-group-cfm. | |
cfm_5_17 | UNICEF Child Functioning Module, ages 5-17 (CFM 5-17) | Caregiver-reported questionnaire on functioning for children and adolescents aged 5 to 17 years. Always administered in proxy mode. Extends the 2-4 module with self-care, concentration, accepting change, making friends, anxiety, and depression. See bibliography entry washington-group-cfm. | |
smart | SMART anthropometry protocol | Standardized anthropometric measurement procedure used in humanitarian nutrition surveys. Captures weight, height or length, MUAC, and bilateral pitting oedema, with a declared growth reference and measurement type (recumbent or standing). See bibliography entry smart-methodology. | |
wfp_fcs | WFP Food Consumption Score (FCS) | Seven-day household dietary recall using eight scored food groups (staples, pulses, vegetables, fruit, meat/fish/eggs, dairy, fat/oil, sugar) plus a condiments screener, each scored by number of days consumed and weighted to produce a composite food consumption score. Published by WFP VAM; used to classify households as poor, borderline, or acceptable consumption. See bibliography entry wfp-fcs. | |
wfp_rcsi | WFP Reduced Coping Strategies Index (rCSI) | Seven-day recall of five food-related coping behaviours (eating less-preferred foods, borrowing food or relying on help, reducing meal size, reducing meal frequency, restricting adult consumption so children can eat), each counted in days and weighted by severity. Published by WFP and CARE as a comparable short form of the full CSI. See bibliography entry wfp-rcsi. | |
wfp_lcs | WFP Livelihood Coping Strategies (LCS) | Thirty-day recall of twelve household coping strategies grouped into three severity tiers: stress (selling non-productive assets, spending savings), crisis (selling productive assets, withdrawing children from school), and emergency (selling house or land, migrating, begging). Each strategy is asked as a frequency (never, rarely, sometimes, often). Published by WFP VAM as part of the CARI framework. See bibliography entry wfp-lcs. | |
wfp_cari | WFP Consolidated Approach for Reporting Indicators (CARI) | Composite food security classification that combines FCS (current food consumption), rCSI (food-based coping), LCS (livelihood coping), and a food expenditure share indicator into a single four-tier index (food secure, marginally food secure, moderately food insecure, severely food insecure). Used as the umbrella instrument code when a household administration deploys the full CARI battery. See bibliography entry wfp-cari. | |
fao_hdds | FAO Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) | Twenty-four-hour recall of household consumption across twelve FAO food groups (cereals; roots and tubers; vegetables; fruit; meat, poultry, offal; eggs; fish and seafood; legumes, nuts, and seeds; milk and dairy; oils and fats; sweets; spices, condiments, and beverages). Each group is a yes/no item; the score is the count of groups consumed. Defined in FAO i1983e. See bibliography entry fao-hdds. | |
fao_fies | FAO Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) | Eight-item experience-based scale (worried about food, unable to eat healthy, ate few foods, skipped a meal, ate less, ran out, hungry, went a whole day without). Each item is a yes/no for a declared reference period (commonly 12 months; 30-day variants exist). Used by FAO for SDG 2.1.2 monitoring. A FIES individual variant exists; the default FIES module is household-level. See bibliography entry fao-fies. | |
fao_mahfp | FAO Months of Adequate Household Food Provisioning (MAHFP) | Twelve-month recall indicator asking, for each of the past 12 months, whether the household had enough food to meet its needs. The output is an integer 0-12 representing the number of months of adequate provisioning. Used to detect seasonality in food access. Defined by FANTA for FAO. See bibliography entry fao-mahfp. | |
fao_wdds | FAO Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) | Twenty-four-hour recall of individual (woman of reproductive age) consumption across ten FAO food groups (grains; pulses; nuts and seeds; dairy; meat/poultry/fish; eggs; dark green leafy vegetables; other vitamin-A-rich fruits and vegetables; other vegetables; other fruits). Each group is a yes/no item; women consuming five or more groups are classified as having minimum dietary diversity. Replaces earlier WDDS. See bibliography entry fao-mdd-w. | |
fanta_hhs | FANTA Household Hunger Scale (HHS) | Three-item scale asking, over the past 30 days, whether anyone in the household (i) had no food of any kind because of lack of resources, (ii) went to sleep hungry, and (iii) went a whole day and night without eating. Each item is asked as a frequency (never, rarely 1-2 times, sometimes 3-10 times, often more than 10 times). Used in severe food insecurity contexts. See bibliography entry fanta-hhs. | |
iasc_mira | IASC Multi-Cluster/Sector Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA) | Inter-Agency Standing Committee multi-sector rapid assessment used in the first two weeks of a sudden-onset emergency to produce a joint humanitarian needs picture across shelter, WASH, health, nutrition, food security, and protection. Combines secondary data review with primary field observation at affected sites. Shelter-relevant items include observed damage, displacement, and service-disruption indicators. See bibliography entry iasc-mira. | |
iom_dtm_household | IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix household assessment | Household-level questionnaire administered as part of IOM DTM site and flow monitoring in displacement contexts. Captures household composition, origin and movement history, current shelter arrangement, damage to original dwelling (where known), services available at the current site, and intentions to return, relocate, or integrate. Used in both sudden-onset and protracted displacement. See bibliography entry iom-dtm. | |
shelter_cluster_rna | Shelter Cluster Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA) | Sector-specific rapid needs assessment coordinated by the Global Shelter Cluster and country-level shelter clusters in the early phase of an emergency. Captures observed dwelling damage levels, current shelter arrangements, habitability, and priority needs for shelter and non-food items, to inform cluster response planning. See bibliography entry global-shelter-cluster. | |
reach_msna | REACH Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) | Household survey coordinated by the REACH Initiative (IMPACT) to produce comparable multi-sector data across shelter, WASH, food security, health, education, and protection. Typically fielded annually within a Humanitarian Needs Overview cycle. Shelter-relevant modules capture dwelling type, damage, habitability, current shelter arrangement, and services functional status. | |
pdna_housing | Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) housing sector module | Housing sector component of the UNDP/EU/World Bank Post-Disaster Needs Assessment methodology. Applied in the recovery phase (typically weeks to months after the shock) to estimate damage, loss, and recovery needs at aggregate and household level. Captures damage level, habitability, and reconstruction intent to inform recovery grant design and programming. See bibliography entry undp-eu-wb-pdna. |
Referenced by this vocabulary
- FAO FIES Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Voices of the Hungry Technical Report No. 1, 2016
- WG/UNICEF CFM Washington Group on Disability Statistics / UNICEF, 2016
- WG-ES Washington Group on Disability Statistics, 2022
- WG-SS Washington Group on Disability Statistics, 2006