Overview

Identification

COUNTRY

Mongolia

TITLE

MICS 2016 (Nalaikh District)
 

STUDY TYPE

Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey - Round 1 [hh/mics-1]
 

SERIES INFORMATION

2000, 2005, 2010, 2012
 

Version

VERSION DESCRIPTION

Version 1.0
 

Overview

ABSTRACT

This report is based on the Child Development Survey (Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)), conducted in 2016 by the National Statistics Office of Mongolia (NSO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Nalaikh district, Ulaanbaatar. The Survey provides valuable information on assessing the implication of children and women rights in Nalaikh district and gives statistically sound and internationally comparable data essential for developing evidence-based policies and programmes, and for monitoring progress towards local government 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 Education for All Declaration of Mongolia.

The CDS 2016 in Nalaikh district has following primary objectives:

· To provide up-to-date information for assessing the situation of children, women and men in Nalaikh district;

· 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 for monitoring progress toward goals established in the Millennium Declaration and other internationally agreed upon goals, as a basis for future action in the provincial level;

· To generate data for assessment of the progress made within the UNICEF Country Program 2012-2016 and to put additional efforts in those areas that needs requires attention
 

KIND OF DATA

Sample survey data [ssd]
 

UNITS OF ANALYSIS

Household and household members
 

Coverage

GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE

Nalaikh District
 

UNIVERSE

Of the 1000 households selected for the sample 995 households were found to be occupied. Of these 975 households were successfully interviewed yielding a response rate of 98.0 percent (Table HH1). The total 831 women age 15-49 years were listed within the interviewed households, of which 758 were successfully interviewed indicating a response rate of 91.2 percent.

The survey also sampled men age 15-49, but required only a subsample of all men in every third household. 343 men age 15-49 years were listed in the household questionnaires. Questionnaires were completed for 296 eligible men, which corresponds to a response rate of 86.3 percent within eligible interviewed households.

In addition, 379 children under 5 listed in the household questionnaires. Questionnaires were completed for 374 of these children, which corresponds to a response rate of 98.7 percent within interviewed households.

Overall response rates in Nalaikh district stands at 84.6 percent of men age 15-49 years, 89.4 percent of women and 96.7 percent calculated for mothers/ caretakers of children under 5.
 

Producers and Sponsors

PRIMARY INVESTIGATOR(S)

FUNDING

Metadata Production

METADATA PRODUCED BY

DATE OF METADATA PRODUCTION

2016-12-01

DDI DOCUMENT VERSION

v1.0
 

DDI DOCUMENT ID

DDI-MNG-NSO-EN-MICS-2016-NA-v1.0

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The sample for the Social Indicator Sample Survey was designed to provide estimates for a large number of indicators on the situation of children, women and men in Nalaikh district, and its seven khoroos (first to seventh khoroos).

Deviations from Sample Design
A total of 1000 households were selected and selection probabilities and corresponding weights vary by soum and PSU. As the main sampling strata, the sample was selected in two stages. At the first stage the primary sampling units (PSUs) within each stratum were selected systematically with probability proportional to size (PPS). After a household listing was carried out in the sample PSUs, a systematic sample of 25 households was selected within each sample PSU in second stage.
The official statistics of the household registration end of 2015 was used as a sampling frame. As the lowest administrative units - 52 khesegs of 7th khoroos were defined as primary sampling units (PSUs).The listing of households was updated during September to October, 2016.
Thus the data collection fieldwork took place during November and December 2016, when the internal migration of households was stable and managed to collect survey data entirely and covered all 52 selected sampling units.

Data Collection

Data Collection Dates

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

DATA COLLECTION NOTES

The NSO has conducted training for 25 fieldwork staff for 15 days during October 26 to November 11, 2016 by combined forms of lectures and practical sessions. The training included lectures on interviewing techniques and the questionnaires contents using tablets.
The paper questionnaire testing was carried out in 7th khoroo of Nalaikh district for two days and the testing of tablets in 6th khoroo for another two days. As the module on water quality was included in the CDS for the first time, a consultant from the Public Health Institute of Mongolia has been invited to give lectures on the water quality testing. Finally, all 25 participants were examined, on a basis of which we have selected the interviewers, editors and supervisors.
The data was collected by three 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 November 13 to December 6, 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 were involved in the training process during the data collection processes and 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 Collectors

Data Processing

Data Editing

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.

Figure SM.1: Data processing

The data collected by the interviewers was aggregated at the team supervisors level and after required clarification and editing, it 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.
The data collected from the selected households were entered on computers using the CSPro 5.03 software program. Procedures and standard programs developed under the global MICS4 programme and adapted to the MICS questionnaires with additional module and questions were used throughout. The data were analyzed using the standard SPSS 21.0 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) software program and the model syntax and tabulation plans developed by UNICEF were customized for this purpose.