Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2013-2014
Egypt, Arab Rep., 2013 - 2014
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Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2013-2014
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | EGY |
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey - Round 5 [hh/mics-5]
Since its inception in 1995, the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, known as MICS, has become the largest source of statistically sound and internationally comparable data on women and children worldwide. In countries as diverse as Costa Rica, Mali and Qatar, trained fieldwork teams conduct face-to-face interviews with household members on a variety of topics – focusing mainly on those issues that directly affect the lives of children and women. MICS has been a major source of data on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) indicators and will be a major data source in the post-2015 era.
The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, Round 5 (MICS5) is the fifth round of MICS surveys, previously conducted around 1995 (MICS1), 2000 (MICS2), 2005-2007 (MICS3) and 2009-2011 (MICS4). MICS was originally developed to support countries measure progress towards an internationally agreed set of goals that emerged from the 1990 World Summit for Children.
The fifth round of Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS5) is scheduled for 2013-2016 and survey results are expected to be available from 2015 onwards. Data collected in MICS5 will play a critical role in the final assessment of the MDGs in September 2015 and subsequent surveys in MICS6 will provide the baselines for the Sustainable Development Goals that will follow.
Information on more than 130 internationally agreed-upon indicators is being collected through MICS5. In addition to collecting information on intervention coverage, MICS also explores knowledge of and attitudes to certain topics, and specific behaviors of women, men and children, enabling analysts to gain insights into behaviours that may affect women’s and children’s lives. MICS routinely disaggregates data so that disparities associated with age, gender, education, wealth, location of residence, ethnicity and other characteristics are revealed.
The global Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) programme was developed by UNICEF in the 1990s as an international household survey programme to support countries in the collection of internationally comparable data on a wide range of indicators on the situation of children and women. MICS measures key indicators that allow countries to generate data for use in policies and programmes, and to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other internationally agreed upon commitments.
This MICS aims at providing data for monitoring system of the ‘Integrated Perinatal Health and Child Nutrition Programme’ (IPHN) implemented by the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) in Egypt with the support of UNICEF. The IPHN covers selected rural districts in 6 governorates, 4 in Upper Egypt and 2 in Lower Egypt.
The MICS in the rural districts cover by the IPHN programme in Egypt was conducted as part of the fifth global round of MICS Surveys (MICS5). The IPHN programme is implemented by the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in collaboration with UNICEF in selected disadvantaged rural areas of Upper and Lower Egypt. The survey has been specifically designed to respond to the data needs of the IPHN program and of its monitoring system (which adopts the model of the Monitoring Results for Equity System, developed by UNICEF). The specific focus of this MICS is on perinatal care. In the MoRES framework developed for the IPHN program, this survey complements the data provided by the routine administrative data collection system and by evidence provided by a qualitative study on perinatal care and nutrition.
The IPHN programme has been initially conducted, since 2008, as a pilot in selected rural village/Family Health Units (FHUs) in 3 Upper Egypt governorates, and then – starting in 2012, it has been expanded in new FHUs in Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, covering a total of 6 governorates at the time of the survey. A total of 2.5 million people were living in the areas of intervention at the time of the survey.
Consistently with the focus of the survey on perinatal care, this household survey considered as eligible for the interviews ever-married women age 15-49 and children under five. A total of 7046 households were successfully interviewed with response rate of 99.9 percent. A total of 5847 ever-married women age 15-49 were successfully interviewed and 5090 questionnaires were completed for children under-5.
The results of the survey are representative of the full area covered by the IPHN and for three subdomains, namely the pilots FHUs in Upper Egypt, the FHUs of Upper Egypt expansion phase, and the FHUs of the Lower Egypt expansion phase.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- individuals
- households
Version
- v01: Edited, anonymous datasets for public distribution.
Scope
The scope of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey includes:
- Household: List of Household Members, Education, Household Characteristics, Water and Sanitation and Hand Washing;
- Women: Women's Background, Access to Mass Media and Use of Information/Communication Technology, Marriage, Birth History, Desire for Last Birth, Maternal and New-born Health, Post-natal Health Checks, Illness Symptoms, Attitude Module, and Woman and Husband's work status;
- Children: Child's Age, Birth Registration, Breastfeeding and Dietary Intake, Immunization, Growth Monitoring, Care of Illness and Anthropometry.
Coverage
Sub-national
The survey covered all de jure household members (usual residents), all women aged between 15-49 years, all children under 5 living in the household.
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| United Nations Children’s Fund |
| El-Zanaty & Associates |
| Ministry of Health and Population |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| United Nations Children’s Fund | Financial and technical support |
Sampling
The sample for the survey was designed to provide estimates for a large number of indicators on the situation of children and women in IPHN areas, and for the three domains: Upper Egypt pilot area, Upper Egypt expansion area, and Lower Egypt expansion area. The Family Health Unit (FHU) catchment areas in the villages of the IPHN within each region were identified as the main primary sampling units (PSUs) and the sample was selected in three stages. Within each stratum, a specified number of FHUs were selected systematically with probability proportional to size, where 10 FHUs were selected from Upper Egypt Pilot phase, and 17 FHUs from Upper Egypt Expansion phase, and 11 FHUs from Lower Egypt Expansion phase. Then a number of enumeration areas were selected systematically with probability proportional to size from each FHU catchment area. A total of 234 EAs in the selected FHUs were thus selected, 60 from Upper Egypt pilot, 108 from Upper Egypt expansion, and 66 from Lower Egypt Expansion.
After a household listing was carried out within the selected enumeration areas, a systematic sample of 30-31 households with women age 15 to 49 and/or with children under-5 years was drawn in each sample enumeration area for a total of 7067 sample households. The sample was stratified by the three domains, and is not self-weighting. For reporting results for the entire IPHN area, sample weights are used.
A stratified three-stage cluster sampling design has been adopted:
1- First stage: systematic selection of a sample of FHUs with probability proportional to size (PPS) of the FHU (population/households).
2- Second stage: systematic selection of a sample of Enumeration Areas with PPS to get a sample of EAs from each selected FHU.
3- Third stage: systematic sample of households selected from each EA When a household is selected, all ever-married women (15-49 years) and mothers or caretakers of children (0-4) years were eligible to be interviewed.
The sampling procedures are more fully described in appendix A in document "Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2013-14 - Final Report" pp.161-164.
Out of the 7,067 households selected for the survey, 7,050 were found to be occupied. Of these, 7,046 were successfully interviewed for a household response rate of 99.9 percent.
In the interviewed households, 5,859 ever-married women (age 15-49 years) were identified. Of these, 5,847 ever-married women were successfully interviewed, yielding a response rate of 99.8 percent.
In addition, 5,096 children under-5 were listed in the household questionnaire. Questionnaires were completed for 5,090 of these children, which corresponds to a response rate of 99.9 percent.
Overall response rates of 99.7 and 99.8 percent are calculated for individual interviews of ever-married 15-49 year-old women and under-5s respectively.
The sample was stratified by the three domains, and is not self-weighting. For reporting results for the entire IPHN area, sample weights are used.
Survey instrument
The questionnaires for the Generic MICS were structured questionnaires based on the MICS5 model questionnaire with some modifications and additions. Household questionnaires were administered in each household, which collected various information on household members including sex, age and relationship. The household questionnaire includes List of Household Members, Education, Household Characteristics, Water and Sanitation and Hand Washing.
In addition to a household questionnaire, questionnaires were administered in each household for women age 15-49 and children under age five. The questionnaire was administered to the mother or primary caretaker of the child.
The women's questionnaire includes Women's Background, Access to Mass Media and Use of Information/Communication Technology, Marriage, Birth History, Desire for Last Birth, Maternal and New-born Health, Post-natal Health Checks, Illness Symptoms, Attitude Module, and Woman and Husband's work status.
The children's questionnaire includes Child's Age, Birth Registration, Breastfeeding and Dietary Intake, Immunization, Growth Monitoring, Care of Illness and Anthropometry.
The questionnaires were based on the MICS5 model questionnaire. The previous mentioned sections were taken from the MICS5 model Arabic version questionnaires and customized, then translated into Egyptian Arabic. Additional questions were added to respond to the data needs of the monitoring system (MoRES) of the IPHN, especially in antenatal and postnatal sections. A pre-test of the questionnaires was conducted in November 2013. Based on the results of the pre-test, modifications were made to the wording and translation of the questionnaires.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2013-12-03 | 2014-01-02 |
| Name |
|---|
| El-Zanaty & Associates |
There is one supervisor for each of the 9 data collection teams in the field.
Training for the fieldwork was conducted for two weeks in November. Training included lectures on interviewing techniques and the contents of the questionnaires, and mock interviews between trainees to gain practice in asking questions. Towards the end of the training period, trainees spent two days in practice interviewing in Manial Sheha FHU/ Abo El-Nomrous district in Giza and El-Kateba FHU/ Belbis district Sharkia.
The data were collected by nine teams; each was comprised of one supervisor, one field editor and 4 interviewers. As a dedicated measurer was not included, the supervisor and field editor were mainly responsible of height and weight measurement. In addition one interviewer per team was trained on height and weight to assist them during fieldwork. Fieldwork began on 3rd of December 2013 and concluded on 2nd of January 2014.
Data processing
Data were entered using the CSPro software. The data were entered on eight microcomputers and carried out by 8 data entry operators, one data entry supervisor and one assistant. In order to ensure quality control, all questionnaires were double-entered and internal consistency checks were performed. Procedures and standard programs developed under the global MICS5 programme were used and adapted to the Egypt questionnaire in the survey. Data processing began simultaneously with data collection in mid-December 2013 and was completed with the clean data set in late January 2014. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software program, Version 18, and the model syntax and tabulation plans developed by UNICEF were used for this purpose. In addition the country specific tables that were designed for the survey specific questions were developed using SPSS by the data processing expert of El-Zanaty and reviewed by UNICEF experts at the regional office as well as headquarters.
Data appraisal
Sampling errors are a measure of the variability between the estimates from all possible samples. The extent of variability is not known exactly, but can be estimated statistically from the survey data.
The following sampling error measures are presented in this appendix for each of the selected indicators:
- Standard error (se): Standard error is the square root of the variance of the estimate. For survey indicators that are means, proportions or ratios, the Taylor series linearization method is used for the estimation of standard errors. For more complex statistics, such as fertility and mortality rates, the Jack-knife repeated replications method is used for standard error estimation.
- Coefficient of variation (se/r) is the ratio of the standard error to the value (r) of the indicator, and is a measure of the relative sampling error.
- Design effect (deff) is the ratio of the actual variance of an indicator, under the sampling method used in the survey, to the variance calculated under the assumption of simple random sampling based on the same sample size. The square root of the design effect (deft) is used to show the efficiency of the sample design in relation to the precision. A deft value of 1.0 indicates that the sample design of the survey is as efficient as a simple random sample for a particular indicator, while a deft value above 1.0 indicates an increase in the standard error due to the use of a more complex sample design.
- Confidence limits are calculated to show the interval within which the true value for the population can be reasonably assumed to fall, with a specified level of confidence. For any given statistic calculated from the survey, the value of that statistic will fall within a range of plus or minus two times the standard error (r + 2.se or r – 2.se) of the statistic in 95 percent of all possible samples of identical size and design.
For the calculation of sampling errors from MICS data, programs developed in CSPro Version 5.0, SPSS Version 21 Complex Samples module and CMRJack have been used.
A series of data quality tables are available to review the quality of the data and include the following:
- Age distribution of household population
- Age distribution of eligible and interviewed women
- Age distribution of children in household and under-5 questionnaires
- Birth date reporting: Household population
- Birth date and age reporting: Women
- Birth date and age reporting: Under-5s
- Birth date reporting: Children, adolescents and young people
- Birth date reporting: First and last births
- Completeness of reporting
- Completeness of information for anthropometric indicators: Underweight
- Completeness of information for anthropometric indicators: Stunting
- Completeness of information for anthropometric indicators: Wasting
- Heaping in anthropometric measurements
- Observation of birth certificates
- Observation of vaccination cards
- Observation of women's health cards
- Observation of bednets and places for handwashing
- Presence of mother in the household and the person interviewed for the under-5 questionnaire
- School attendance by single age
- Sex ratio at birth among children ever born and living
- Births by calendar years
- Reporting of age at death in days
- Reporting of age at death in months
The results of each of these data quality tables are shown in appendix D in document "Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2013-14 - Final Report" pp.171-184.
Access policy
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http://mics.unicef.org/surveys
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Depositor information
| Name |
|---|
| United Nations Children's Fund |
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Childinfo | UNICEF | http://www.childinfo.org/mics4_surveys.html | mics@unicef.org |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | Users of the data agree to keep confidential all data contained in these datasets and to make no attempt to identify, trace or contact any individual whose data is included in these datasets. |
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
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Example,
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Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | |
|---|---|
| UNICEF Egypt Country Office | cairo@unicef.org |
Metadata production
DDI_EGY_2013_MICS_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
2016-11-07
Metadata version
Version 01 (November 2016)