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UNICEF Child Mortality Estimates Info (CME Info ) and MICS Compiler. Presented at Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge 8-10 December 2010, Cape Town, South Africa Daniel Vadnais, Communication Specialist, Statistics and Monitoring UNICEF.
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UNICEF ChildMortalityEstimatesInfo (CME Info) and MICS Compiler Presented at Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge 8-10 December 2010, Cape Town, South Africa Daniel Vadnais, Communication Specialist, Statistics and Monitoring UNICEF
UNICEF: central role in monitoring the situation of children and women worldwide HOW? • assisting countries in collecting and analyzing data • helping to develop methodologies and indicators • maintaining global databases (www.childinfo.org) • disseminating and publishing data
create powerful presentations in tables, maps, graphs
compliance with statistical standards di Indicators di Maps di Sources
exchange data with other software apps DevInfo
adaptations by more than 130 countries
CME Info Child Mortality
CME Info • UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) • Data and methods to estimate child mortality • CME Info
CME Info • UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) • Data and methods to estimate child mortality • CME Info
Background MDG4: two-thirds reduction in under-five mortality rate between 1990 and 2015.
The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) • Generating accurate child mortality estimates: considerable challenge • Vital registration systems: non available in many developing countries • Household surveys : have become a primary source of data. • Formation of IGME
IGME Members United Nations Population Division* THE WORLD BANK* *Non-official logos
CME Info • UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) • Data and methods to estimate child mortality • CME Info
Methodology • IGME compiles all available nationally representative data • Data quality assessment • Fitting of a regression line • Public access on CME Info (www.childmortality.org)
CME Info • UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) • Data and methods to estimate child mortality • CME Info
What is CME Info? www.childmortality.org
Map Window Indicator box Legend
Bangladesh Graph Window
Mali Graph Window
Mali Graph Window
Mali Graph Window
Mali Graph Window
Mali Graph Window
Comparison in graph window Mali Mauritania Algeria
Comparison in graph window Indicator box Subgroup box Mali Mauritania Algeria
CME Info • CME Info is free and available to all • comprehensive data portal • leading-edge information technology • to visualize in a transparent way how national data can be used to generate international estimates • through IGME consensus
Expert and Administrative Interface • More advanced features available: • Log in • Add, edit, delete data • Generate, edit, delete estimates • Notification system between experts and administrators
Future Plans • CME Info 3.0 is under development. Will be launched in 2011 • Non-web based version under development