Overview

Identification

COUNTRY

Mongolia

TITLE

MICS 2016 (Khuvsgul Aimag)
 

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 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.
 

KIND OF DATA

Sample survey data [ssd]
 

UNITS OF ANALYSIS

Household and household members
 

Coverage

GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE

Khuvsgul province
 

UNIVERSE

- 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

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-KH-v1.0

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

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.
 

Deviations from Sample Design

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.

Data Collection

Data Collection Dates

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

DATA COLLECTION NOTES

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 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 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.