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
Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)
Since 1995, 100+ countries and 240+ surveys
Notes: Countries with at least one MICS survey
Including sub-national surveys and ongoing MICS4 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
Coverage
2009
2009-10
2010
2010-11
2011
2011-12
2012
2012-13
2013
2
1
18
5
22
2
13
0
6
Total
69
National
Selected Population
Selected Geozone
49
5
15
Total
69
MICS4 Surveys by Region
SURVEY PROCESS
• 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
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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
Disaggregation
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, urbanpoor, rural)
• gender
• education
• age
• wealth
• ethnicity/religion/language
• other stratifiers
• combinations of the above
Mauritania 2007 MICS
Use of Improved sanitation
90
Use of improved sanitation
among non-poor urban
households is 4 times
higher than the urban poor
households
80
70
60
68
50
81
40
30
20
17
10
13
8
0
Urban
Urban poor (20
percent)
Urban poor (10
percent)
Rural
Urban (non-poor)
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
18000
16000
15800
14000
14383
13329
12000
10000
9183
8000
8587
1711
6000
7377
6392
5960
4000
2000
0
Kazakhstan
Cuba
Jamaica
North Sudan
South Sudan
OPT
Serbia
Suriname
Finalizing Surveys
18
16
16.5
15.5
14
12
12
10
11
11
11
9
8
Net median (only
completed
surveys): 13
months
6
4
2
0
CEECIS
EAP
ESA
MENA
SA
TAC
Median number of
months from
completion of
fieldwork to
publication of final
reports
(including surveys
in progress)
WCA
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
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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
MICS5 Pilot – Bangladesh, April-June 2012
New
• Children left behind
• Short consumption
module
• Water testing (Arsenic, ecoli)
Process
• Anthropometry training
• PDAs
Modifications/Improvements
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•
•
Child discipline
Child labour
Immunization schedule
Contraception
Care of illness (Zinc)
Other methodological work in 2012
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•
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
Timeline for Global Reporting on MDGs
MICS5 Global Pilot Survey
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
MICS 4
MICS 5
Large number of
countries expected to
conduct surveys for
MDG monitoring
Data compilation and analysis
Summer 2014
Submission of data for SG’s report
March 2015
SG’s MDG Report launch
September 2015
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
THANK YOU