ALIGNING MULTIPLE INDICATOR CLUSTER SURVEYS TO THE SDG ERA

2017 International Conference on Sustainable Development Goals Statistics Manila, 4-6 October 2017

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, in 1995 and 2000

Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys

• Conducted by governments as part of UNICEF-government cooperation

• … based on a joint data gaps assessment

• All survey activities carried out by NSOs with full government ownership and management

• UNICEF provides standard tools, customized by implementing agency with continuous technical support – on and off site,

regional workshops

• Nationally relevant, globally comparable data on children, adolescents, women, households

Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys

Round Period Emphasis # of Surveys

MICS1 1993-1998 World Summit for Children Goals 64

MICS2 1999-2003 World Summit for Children Goals 65

MICS3 2005-2009 World Fit For Children Goals, MDGs, Other Global Monitoring Frameworks

53

MICS4 2009-2012 MDGs, Other Global Monitoring Frameworks

60

MICS5 2012-2016 Final MDG Assessment, Baseline for post-2015 goals/targets, Other Global Monitoring Frameworks

52

MICS6 2017-2019 SDGs, other globally recommended indicators, new topics, emerging issues

43+

Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys

20% of surveys now in upper middle income and high income countries, many in post-emergency settings National and subnational surveys

Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys Since 1995

Household Questionnaire

Questionnaire for Individual Women

(Age 15-49)

Questionnaire for Individual Men

(Age 15-49)

Questionnaire for Children (Age 5-

17)

Questionnaire for Children Under

Five

Water Quality Testing

Questionnaires

Learning Assessment (7-14)

Salt Testing

Anthropometry

Aligning MICS to the SDG Era

• The broad SDG agenda calls for concerted efforts for all data sources to expand their scopes, and explore

new types of data

• Efforts need to focus on content, as well as other themes of the agenda – disaggregation, accessibility,

use of technology and the like

• Household surveys will remain as key data sources for SDG statistics, but need to transform and

innovate

Aligning MICS to the SDG Era

• The MICS programme has been going through a number of changes to align with the SDG era

Coverage of SDG indicators

Disaggregation

Survey designs to leave no one behind

Accessibility, timeliness and utilization of data

Use of technology

Partnerships, Coordination and Triangulation

232 Global SDG indicators

around 30 percent can be generated by

household surveys

Out of all household survey based SDG indicators

48 percent

(33 indicators)

are fully or partially covered by MICS

Coverage of SDG Indicators

Global SDGs and MICS

? • MICS generates indicators under

11 goals • Ongoing work to assess inclusion

of Time Use (Children) and Informed Decision Making on R&S Health indicators

1.2.2 Multidimensional poverty 1.3.1 Social protection coverage 1.4.1 Use of basic services 2.2.1 Stunting 2.2.2 Wasting & overweight 3.1.1 Maternal mortality 3.1.2 Skilled birth attendant 3.2.1 Under-5 mortality 3.2.2 Neonatal mortality 3.7.1 Met need 3.7.2 Adolescent birth rate 3.8.1 Tracer interventions 3.a.1 Current tobacco use 3.b.1 Full immunization 4.1.1 Reading/numeracy

4.2.1 ECD 4.2.2 Preschool attendance 4.4.1 ICT skills 4.5.1 Parity indices 5.3.1 Child marriage 5.3.2 FGM/C 5.b.1 Mobile phone ownership 6.1.1 Drinking water 6.2.1 Sanitation + handwashing 7.1.1 Access to electricity 7.1.2 Clean fuels and technology 8.7.1 Child labour 10.3.1 Discrimination 16.1.4 Feeling safe 16.2.1 Child discipline 16.3.1 Crime reporting 16.9.1 Birth registration 17.8.1 Internet use

SDG indicators fully or partially covered in MICS

Current/ongoing/planned new topics

• ..(recent) methodological work (with partners) on indicators that are now SDG indicators or disaggregates – ECD Index – Child discipline – Hand washing – Child labour – FGM/C – Birth registration – Learning assessments – Water quality – Child disability

• …ongoing work on SDG indicators or disaggregates, and other related topics – Informed decision making

on sexual and reproductive health

– Time use – Post-emergency module – Verbal and social autopsies – New measure on ECD

… with more disaggregation

In addition to standard disaggregates on

• Region/province/state

• Residence (urban-rural)

• Sex

• Age

• Wealth

• Ethnicity

• Education

… added standard disaggregates on

• The urban poor

• Adult disability

• Child disability

• Migratory status

The MICS post-emergency module

• New module is being introduced to generate data for emergency affected populations

– Cognitive testing in Nepal (earthquake areas)

– Pilot test in Pakistan (conflict and floods)

– Pilot test in Indonesia (floods)

– Next pilot test in Malawi, in November 2017 – first test with full MICS scaffolding

• Targeting release of module in Q1 of 2018

• Module needs to be implemented with appropriate sample design

The MICS post-emergency module

• Module administered to household member after an emergency to

– Characterize how households are affected by emergencies caused by conflict and disasters from natural hazards

– Demonstrate the association between emergency preparedness and population well-being with a particular focus on children and women

• Data to strengthen linkages between preparedness, response, recovery, risk reduction and development

• “Affectedness” domains:

– Displacement

– Demographic changes: mortality, separation

– Health: Injury

– Economic impact: Loss of livelihood, productive assets

– Access to services: education, health, WASH

The MICS post-emergency module

… and to leave no one behind

• MICS surveys regularly over-sample groups of special interest and vulnerable groups, such as

– Under-5 children

– Minority populations, indigenous groups, small domains

• Subnational surveys

– Roma, urban areas, IDP & refugee camps, sub-populations

• Invest more into sample frames

– To capture some of the “missing” populations, such as IDPs and refugees, new migrants, urban growth

Accessibility, timeliness, and utilization

• Shortened final reports: Methodological narrative and tabulations available in 6

months

• Complemented by statistical + visual snapshots for non-technical audiences

• MICS Tabulator

Use of technology

• All MICS surveys use tablets for data collection • Innovative method to test water quality with the JMP

team • Testing use of drones in Malawi for updating sample

frames • Geospatial data, grid mapping for sampling and analysis • Plans for High frequency data collection: Extension of a

MICS sub-sample to continue collecting data with mobile phones, for – Longitudinal data collection on selected topics – Crisis monitoring – Opinion polling

Partnerships, coordination and triangulation

• New partnerships to enhance coordination and triangulation

– The DHS-MICS-LSMS Collaborative Group

– Inter-secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys

• Linking survey and facility data: The Cote d’Ivoire pilot

• Joint support to surveys: Sierra Leone with LSMS, Lao PDR with DHS, support on biomarkers by the DHS programme

• Progress on alternating between MICS and DHS

• Cross-walks

– Estimating poverty indicators by cross-walks between LSMS and MICS

– Small area estimation techniques for selected indicators – survey pairs, MICS with censuses