Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys Data Dissemination and Further Analysis Workshop

1. Multiple Indicator Cluster SurveysData Dissemination and Further Analysis Workshop MICS Global Update MICS4 Data Dissemination and Further Analysis Workshop

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. MICS4

8. 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

9. Years of data collection and survey populations

10. MICS4 Surveys by Region

11. Status of MICS4 Surveys SURVEY PROCESS

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Disaggregation • 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 Data collection through MICS is a primary source of disaggregated data

17. Mauritania 2007 MICS Use of improved sanitation among non-poor urban households is 4 times higher than the urban poor households

18. Sampling • Increases in sample size • 7000 in MICS3 • Around 10,500 in MICS4 • Over-sampling for under-5s, minority groups • Weighted sample designs

19. Selected sample sizes from MICS4

20. 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

21. 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

22. MICS5

23. 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)

24. 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

25. MICS5 Pilot – Bangladesh, April-June 2012 Modifications/Improvements • Child discipline • Child labour • Immunization schedule • Contraception • Care of illness (Zinc) New • Children left behind • Short consumption module • Water testing (Arsenic, e-coli) Process • Anthropometry training • PDAs

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

32. 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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