Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys Data Dissemination and Further Analysis Workshop

MICS Global Update

MICS4 Data Dissemination and Further Analysis Workshop

Global household survey programmes

• Since 1970s• Multi-topic, multiple indicator surveys

• World Fertility Surveys (1970s, early 1980s)• Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys (1980s)• Demographic and Health Surveys (since 1980s,

USAID)• Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (since 1995,

UNICEF)• Reproductive Health Surveys (since 1990s, CDC)

Global household survey programmes

• Thematic surveys• Living Standards Measurement Surveys - LSMS

(World Bank)• Malaria Indicator Surveys – MIS (RBM Malaria)• AIDS Indicator Surveys - AIS (USAID)• SMART surveys (Nutrition)

Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys

• Household survey program, developed by UNICEF in the 1990s– to assist countries in filling data gaps on children’s

and women’s well-being for tracking progress toward World Summit for Children Goals

• Nationally representative household sample surveys– Face to face interviews, observations,

measurements– Representative sample of households

Notes: Countries with at least one MICS survey Including sub-national surveys and ongoing MICS4 surveys

Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) Since 1995, 100+ countries and 240+ surveys

Background

• MICS1 and MICS2– 1995 and 2000– Emphasis on World Summit for Children

goals– 62 and 65 countries

• MICS3– 2005-2006– Emphasis on World Fit for Children Goals,

MDGs, and plus– 52 surveys

MICS4

MICS4

• Launched in 2009• Will conclude at end of this year• MDGs and other globally

recommended indicators• 69 surveys (as of October 2012)

– National: 49 surveys– Selected regions/zones: 20 surveys

Years of data collection and survey populations

Year of Fieldwork

2009 22009-10 12010 182010-11 52011 222011-12 22012 132012-13 02013 6

Total 69

Coverage

National 49Selected Population 5Selected Geozone 15

Total 69

MICS4 Surveys by Region

Status of MICS4 SurveysS

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Y P

RO

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SS

MICS4 Countries - Global

• Low and middle/high income countries• Chad, Mali, Costa Rica, Serbia, Qatar

• Emergency or post-emergency settings• Somalia, Iraq, Sindh

• New to MICS (Bhutan, Mali), all MICS rounds (Serbia, Gambia), “returning” countries (Moldova, Afghanistan)

• Single household survey data source on children in several countries

Regional Workshops

• Survey Design (7)• Data Processing (6)• Data dissemination and further analysis

• Bangkok (EAPRO-ROSA): 23-28 May 2011• Istanbul (Global): 24-30 June 2011• Dakar (Africa): 19-26 July 2011• Belgrade (Global): 13-19 November 2011• Istanbul (Global): 24-30 June 2012• Amman (Global): 30 October-4 November

2012

Questionnaires

• Household• Women’s• Under-5’s• Men’s • Child disability questionnaire form (age 2-

9)

• In some countries:– Anemia, malaria, HIV testing– (Health) Expenditures, Health insurance– PDAs/Tablets

Methodological work, new to MICS

• Post-natal care• Early childhood development• Life satisfaction• Child disability medical assessment• Place for hand washing• Unmet need• Access to mass media/ICT• Tobacco and alcohol• …and others

Data collection through MICS is a primary source of disaggregated data

MICS provides data for more than 100 indicators which can be disaggregated by:

• geozones• residence (urban,

urban-poor, rural)• gender• education• age• wealth• ethnicity/religion/

language• other stratifiers• combinations of the

above

Disaggregation

Mauritania 2007 MICS

Urban Urban poor (20 percent)

Urban poor (10 percent)

Rural Urban (non-poor)0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

68

17

813

81

Use of Improved sanitation

Use of improved sanitation among non-poor urban households is 4 times higher than the urban poor households

Sampling

• Increases in sample size– 7000 in MICS3– Around 10,500 in MICS4

• Over-sampling for under-5s, minority groups

• Weighted sample designs

Selected sample sizes from MICS4

Kazakhstan Cuba Jamaica North Sudan South Sudan OPT Serbia Suriname0

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

12000

14000

16000

18000

15800

9183

5960

14383

8587

13329

63927377

1711

Finalizing Surveys

Median number of months from completion of fieldwork to publication of final reports(including surveys in progress)

Net median (only completed surveys): 13 months

CEECIS EAP ESA MENA SA TAC WCA0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

11 1112

16.5

11

9

15.5

Impressions

• Increased sample sizes, increased cost• Improvements in length and content of

training, sampling, data processing• Target of publication of final report 12

months after fieldwork not met in some countries

• Major bottlenecks: Simultaneous data entry, data processing/editing/tabulations, sampling

• Overall improvements in data quality

MICS5

MICS5 Timelines

• Global Pilot Survey (May-June 2012)• Official launch by UNICEF (October 2012)• Finalize survey instruments• …and supporting documents (by end of 2012)• Workshops: February 2013 onwards• Survey implementation (2013 - First quarter 2014 at the latest)

MICS5 Pilot – Bangladesh, April-June 2012

• Test the MICS5 questionnaires, new and modified modules

• Support Bangladesh CO and BBS for Bangladesh MICS 2012

• Bogra/Sirajganj districts, 1000 households

New• Children left behind• Short consumption

module• Water testing (Arsenic, e-

coli)

Process• Anthropometry training• PDAs

Modifications/Improvements• Child discipline• Child labour• Immunization schedule• Contraception• Care of illness (Zinc)

MICS5 Pilot – Bangladesh, April-June 2012

Other methodological work in 2012

• New child disability screening module• Child disability medical assessment• More work on ECD• Analysis of data on new modules in MICS4 (life

satisfaction, post-natal care etc)

• Economic support/social protection

2012-2014

• MICS5 will be implemented in 2012-2014

• Short period after MICS4, increased survey activity expected due to– MDG deadline in 2015– UNICEF’s strengthened commitment to

reaching the MDGs with equity

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

MICS 4

MICS 5

SG’s MDG Report launchSeptember 2015

Data compilation and analysisSummer 2014

Large number of countries expected to conduct surveys for

MDG monitoring

Submission of data for SG’s reportMarch 2015

MICS5 Global Pilot Survey

Timeline for Global Reporting on MDGs

MICS Coordinates

• Reports, survey documents, micro data sets are available for download, free of charge, at

www.childinfo.org

• Easy access to MICS results – comparative tables, graphs and maps at

www.micscompiler.org

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