Mining Nutrition Survey Data

In developing countries, many national development plans have included nutrition considerations for decades. This has led to a major thrust from the governments to promote nutrition education activities. Many public nutrition research institutes have stepped up their efforts to educate the public by conducting workshops which includes various techniques like giving lectures, providing questionnaires, etc., to train the participants in the most basic and important concepts of nutrition and dietetics. In this paper we focus on an application of mining questionnaires of such kind to determine the current knowledge of child participants and how this knowledge improves after the training session. This has been used to detect what kind of participant in the training session perform well/poorly and to determine if training has been successful and what improvements can be made in future training sessions. Keywords-Nutrition; Education; Questionnaires; Data Mining