MICS 2016 (Khuvsgul Aimag)
Mongolia, 2016
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DDI-MNG-NSO-EN-MICS-2016-KH-v1.0
MICS 2016 (Khuvsgul Aimag)
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Mongolia | MNG |
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey - Round 1 [hh/mics-1]
2000, 2005, 2010, 2012
This report is based on the Child Development Survey (Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)), conducted in Khuvsgul province in 2016 by the National Statistics Office of Mongolia (NSO) with the technical support of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) province. The Survey provides valuable information on the status of children and women in Khuvsgul province and gives statistically sound and internationally comparable data essential for developing evidence-based policies and programmes, and for monitoring progress towards local government's goals and commitments.
Besides of local government's commitments, the report will give profound base to monitor goals and objectives set in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) the goals of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, the World Declarion on Education for All.
The 2016 CDS in Khuvsgul province has as its primary objectives:
· To provide up-to-date information for assessing the situation of children and women in Khuvsgul province;
· To collect disaggregated data for the identification of disparities, to allow for evidence based policy-making aimed at social inclusion of the most vulnerable;
· To furnish data needed to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed upon goals, as a basis for future action at the provincial level;
· To generate data for the assessment of the progress towards of the objectives set out in the UNICEF Country Program for Mongolia, 2012-2016
· To contribute to the generation of baseline data for the post-2016 agenda;
· To validate data from other sources and the results of focused interventions.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Household and household members
Version
Version 1.0
Coverage
Khuvsgul province
- Household members - All women age 15-49 years - All men age 15-54 years - All children under 5 living in the household
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Statistical Office | SGH |
| Name | Abbreviation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| United Nations Children's Fund | UNICEF | Funding of survey implementation |
| United Nations Population Fund | UNFPA | Funding of survey implementation |
Sampling
The sample for the Khuvsgul province CDS was designed to provide estimates for a large number of indicators on the situation of children and women at provincial level , for urban and rural areas, for six regions namely Central, Touristic, Agricultural, Ider, Tes-Ekh and Murun. The regions were identified as the main sampling domains and the sample was selected in two stages. At the first stage the primary sampling units (PSUs) were the baghs in soums in Khuvsgul province.
A total of 2650 households were selected and selection probabilities and corresponding weights vary by PSUs and by the second stage stratum of households with and without children under 5 years of age.
Within each sampling stratum, the sample was selected in two stages. The PSUs within each stratum were selected systematically with probability proportional to size (PPS). After a household listing was carried out in each sample PSU, a systematic sample of households was selected separately for households with and without children, for a total of 25 sample households per PSU. The 2015 official statistics of the household registration was used as a sampling frame.
The sample was stratified by region and is not self-weighting. For reporting all survey results, sample weights are used. As it was mentioned before the lowest administrative units (bagh within soum in the province) were defined as primary sampling units. The survey covered 23 soums and 106 sample baghs; the listing of households was updated during September-October 2016.
During the data collection fieldwork in October-December 2016, we had encountered problems due to seasonal movement of families; transportation means to reach remote families were broken due to heavy snow falls and severe cold. In spite of this, we managed to collect survey data in all of the 106 selected PSUs.
Survey instrument
Questionnaire contents and indicators for the survey were identified based on the survey objectives and covering the main indicators of the MICS5 model questionnaire recommended by UNICEF. Moreover, the principle of international comparability and with previous surveys was considered.
Five sets of questionnaires were used in the survey: 1) a household questionnaire which was used to collect basic demographic information on all de jure household members (usual residents), the household, and the dwelling; 2) a questionnaire for individual women administered in each household to all women age 15-49 years; 3) a questionnaire for individual men administered in every second household to all men age 15-49 years; 4) an under-5 questionnaire, administered to mothers (or caretakers) for all children under 5 living in the household; and 5) a questionnaire for evaluating water quality administered in every third household. Questionnaire Form for Vaccination Records at Health Facility, which is part of an under 5 questionnaire were used to collect vaccination records for children in cases where their health records/ vaccinations cards were kept at the health facility. This was included as part of the under-five questionnaire.
In addition to the administration of the questionnaires, fieldwork teams tested the salt used for cooking in the households for iodine content, observed the place for hand washing and measured the weights and heights of children age under 5 years. Details and findings of these measurements and observations are provided in the respective sections of the report.
The household questionnaires included the following modules:
· List of Household MembersEducation
· Child Functioning (age 5-17)
· Child Labour
· Child Discipline
· Child Jockey
· Household Characteristics
· Water and Sanitation
· Hand Washing
· Salt Iodization
The Questionnaire for Women age 15-49 was administered to all women of this age living in the households by separate interviewing and included the following modules:
· Woman's Background
· Access to Mass Media and Use of Information Communication Technology
· Fertility / Birth history
· Desire for Last Birth
· Maternal and Newborn Health
· Post-natal Health Checks
· Illness Symptoms
· Contraception
· Unmet Need
· Attitudes toward Domestic Violence
· Marriage/ Union
· Sexual Behaviour
· HIV/AIDS
· Tobacco and Alcohol Use
· Life Satisfaction
The Questionnaire for Child under 5 was administered to mothers or caretakers of all children under 5 years of age living in the households. Normally, the questionnaire was administered to mothers of under-5 children; in cases when the mother was not listed in the household roster, a primary caretaker for the child was identified and interviewed. The questionnaire included the following modules:
· Age
· Birth Registration
· Early Childhood Development
· Breastfeeding and Dietary Intake
· Immunization
· Care of Illness
· Child Functioning (age 2-4)
· Anthropometry
The Questionnaire for Individual Men was administered to all men age 15-49 years living in every two households by separate interviewing, and included the following modules:
· Man's Background
· Access to Mass Media and Use of Information and Communication Technology
· Fertility
· Attitudes toward Domestic Violence
· Marriage/Union
· Contraception
· Sexual Behaviour
· HIV/AIDS
· Tobacco and Alcohol Use
· Life Satisfaction
Every third household was administered question on drinking-water quality, questioning water source of the household and testing residential water quality, and included the following modules:
· Testing of residential water quality
· water quality testing results
The questionnaires were pre-tested in July 2016 in 3 baghs of Kherlen and Tsenkhermandal soums of Khentii province and 2 khesegs of 8th khoroo of Bayangol District, Ulaanbaatar.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2016-10-10 | 2016-10-20 |
- Face-to-face [f2f]
| Name | Affiliation | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|
| National Statistical Office | SGH | NSO |
Training for 45 fieldwork personnel was conducted for fifteen days on 10-20 October 2016 by combined forms of lectures and practice sessions.
The training included lectures on interviewing techniques and the contents of the questionnaires. Moreover it has concentrated on teaching paper and tablet questionnaires and mock interviews between trainees to gain practice in asking questions.
The paper questionnaires testing was carried out in 7th bagh of Murun soum of Khuvsgul province for two days and testing of tablets in 6th bagh for another two days. As module on water quality was included in MICS for the first time, Mr Andrew Shantz consultant of UNICEF has supported training on water quality testing. Finally, all 45 participants were taken tests and the interviewers, editors and supervisors were selected based on their performance in the test.
The data were collected by five teams; each team was comprised of a supervisor, 5 interviewers (2 men assigned as main measurers) and 2 drivers.
The data collection fieldwork was carried out during October 21 to December 10, 2016. Monitoring, assessment and timely clarification of the data entered on the central network during the data collection helped improve the quality of data. In addition, field monitoring visits were done by NSO and UNICEF staff who have been involved in the training process during the data collection processes who observed some interviews and held discussions with the teams to address the issues and inaccuracies and ways for improvement. These contributed to overall quality of the data.
Data processing
The MICS utilized tablet PCs for data collection. This environmental friendly solution offered many advantages including, sending the data collected from the field immediately to the central office at a click of a button, time saving from data entry (in the case of paper surveys), cost in the long term and ensuring information collected are of high quality. Figure SM.1 shows the data collection and transferring process used in the survey.
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The data collected by the interviewers from the respondents aggregated at the team supervisors and after required clarification and editing, the data was sent to the central network of the NSO. The data received at the central office were monitored and checked. Where additional clarifications were needed on a particular data, the team supervisors were made to contact the particular household. Followed by entering the survey data to online database using Census and Survey Processing System 5.03 (CSPro 5.03) public domain software. These followed procedures and standard programs developed under the global MICS programme and adapted to the SISS Mongolia 2013 questionnaire were used throughout.
Customization of the generic CDS syntaxes developed for MICS5 for the analysis of the data was done. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences Version 21.0 (SPSS) software program and model syntax and tabulation plans were developed by global MICS/UNICEF team.
Data Access
Survey datasets are distributed at no cost for legitimate research, with the condition that we receive a description of the objectives of any research project that will be using the data prior to authorizing their distribution.
Disclaimer and copyrights
The National Statistical Office of Mongolia and UNICEF provide these data to external users without any warranty or responsibility implied. The National Statistical Office of Mongolia and UNICEF accept no responsibility for the results and/or implications of any actions resulting from the use of these data.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| National Statistics Office of Mongolia | international@nso.mn | |
| Ms. Altantsetseg Togtoo | senior officer, Population and Social Statistics Department | altantsetseg@nso.mn |
| Ms. Lkhagvatseren Dulmaa | officer, Information Technology Department | lkhagvatseren@nso.mn |
Metadata production
DDI-MNG-NSO-EN-MICS-2016-KH-v1.0
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Statistical Office | NSO | SGH | Documentation of the study |
2016-12-01
Metadata version
v1.0