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, more than 100 countries and close to 230 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 countries
MICS4
• Launched in 2009
• Ends in 2011
• MDGs and other globally recommended
indicators
• 59 surveys (as of September 2011)
– National: 47 surveys
– Selected regions/zones: 12 surveys
MICS4 Surveys by Region
14
12
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11
10
Number of Surveys
10
9
8
6
6
6
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CEECIS
East Asia
Pacific
Eastern-Southern
Africa
Middle East
North Africa
South
Asia
Latin America
Caribbean
Western-Central
Africa
Status of MICS4 Surveys
Completed
3
Report drafting
7
Analysis
16
Data editing
1
Data entry
1
Fieldwork
Training
Pre-test
6
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2
Design
Planning
12
9
Number of surveys
MICS4 Countries - Global
• Low and middle income countries
• Emergency or post-emergency situations
• New to MICS, all MICS rounds, returning
countries
• Single household survey data source on
children in many countries
• Included in statistical plans
Regional Workshops
• Survey Design (7)
• Data Processing (6)
• Data dissemination and further analysis
– Interpretation of results, tables
– Dissemination
– Further analysis
•Bangkok (EAPRO-ROSA): 23-28 May
•Istanbul (Global): 24-30 June
•Dakar (Africa): 19-26 July
•Belgrade (Global): 13-19 November
Methodological work
• Completed:
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Post-natal care
Early childhood development
Life satisfaction
Child disability medical assessment
Place for hand washing
Unmet need
• Ongoing
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Child labor
Vulnerability
Migration
PDA/Tablet use
Questionnaires
• Modules that were “additional/optional” or
which were being developed at the time of
the first workshop are now part of the core
set of questionnaires
• A single set of questionnaires are now being
used – no additional or optional modules
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DEMOGRAPHICS
ORPHANHOOD
EDUCATION
WATER AND SANITATION
HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS
INSECTICIDE TREATED NETS
INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAYING
CHILD LABOUR
CHILD DISCIPLINE
HANDWASHING
SALT IODIZATION
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AGE AND LITERACY
ACCESS TO MASS MEDIA AND USE OF ICT
CHILD MORTALITY (WITH OR WITHOUT BIRTH
HISTORIES)
DESIRE FOR LAST BIRTH
ANTENATAL, DELIVERY, POST-NATAL CARE
ILLNESS SYMPTOMS
CONTRACEPTION, UNMET NEED
FGM
ATTITUDES TOWARD DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
MARRIAGE/UNION
SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR
HIV/AIDS
MATERNAL MORTALITY
TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL USE
LIFE SATISFACTION
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AGE
BIRTH REGISTRATION
PRE-SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, EARLY
CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
BREASTFEEDING, INFANT AND YOUNG
CHILD FEEDING
CARE OF ILLNESS (DIARRHOEA,
PNEUMONIA, MALARIA)
IMMUNIZATION
ANTHROPOMETRY
IMMUNIZATION MODULE FOR HEALTH
FACILITIES
Other Questionnaires
• Men’s Questionnaire (15-49 or 15-59)
• Child disability
• Anemia, HIV testing in a few countries
• Testing PDAs/Tablets in selected countries
(Costa Rica, Oman, Qatar, Thailand)
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 MICS
Improved sanitation
90
Use of improved sanitation
among non-poor urban
households is 4 times
higher than the urban poor
households
80
70
68.1
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50
81
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20
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10
13.1
7.5
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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
• 12 percent relative error
– 20 %, +/- 2.4
– 40 %, +/- 4.8
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
Initial 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
• Overall improvements in data quality
Rest of 2011 (and early 2012)
• Continue support to unfinished surveys
• Upload reports, data sets to childinfo.org
• Ongoing methodological work
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Water quality testing
Child labor
Vulnerability
Unmet need
PDA/Tablets
• Preparations for MICS5
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 reporting on MDGs
2010
2011
MICS 4
2012
Large number of
countries to conduct
surveys for MDG
monitoring
2013
MICS 5
2014
Data compilation and analysis
Summer 2014
2015
SG’s MDG Report launch
September 2015
Submission of data for SG’s report
March 2015
UNICEF’s Equity (Re)Focus
• UNICEF is re-focusing on reaching the most
vulnerable population groups
• Progress in meeting national and
international goals, but progress is not
uniform, disparities are increasing
• Intensified efforts to reach the
disadvantaged populations will accelerate
overall progress, at low cost
UNICEF’s Equity (Re)Focus
• While interventions are supported, monitoring of
progress will be emphasized – to generate the
evidence and guide interventions
• UNICEF’s internal monitoring systems, process
monitoring, and objective validation of results:
Household surveys, MICS
• Increased demand for MICS surveys expected
during 2012-2014
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