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Nutrition Baseline Survey
Advantages / Limitations:
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 | Provides objective, measurable and representative data for problem analysis, planning and evaluation purposes, |
| Facilitates the comparison of situations at the beginning and the end of a project cycle for impact assessment, |
| Helps to determine causes or determinants of the nutritional problem, |
| Enables the construction of statistical relationships between factors and the nutritional status for intervention planning, |
| Can compare its results with other standardized surveys because of the internationally accepted indices, cut-off points and measurement standards, |
| Provides information for indicators (Planning matrix), |
| Contribute to quality management issues, |
| Gives justification for interventions and activities in certain populations and the surveyed region, |
| Provides valid results, which can be used for resource allocation and policy making. | |
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| Is expensive in terms of time, money and human resources, |
| Needs specific skills and training to guarantee an adequate application, implementation and interpretation of the data, |
| Is not participatory or flexible because of the standardisation that is necessary for the purposes of comparison, |
| Cannot sufficiently assess cultural aspects, nutritional habits and customs as this type of information is difficult to obtain during a standardised survey, |
| Highlights the situation of the surveyed population at the moment, but cannot assess processes or social relations within the community, |
| Must rely on the answers of the surveyed people, which should be compared with observations to guarantee the reliability of the data. If questions are not well formulated, there is a risk of collecting superficial answers, which do not reflect the real situation, |
| Has a risk of producing large data banks without a justifiable analysis. | | | |
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