Thursday, December 4, 2008

Pictures from the MICS Archives

The very first MICS3 regional workshop, on Survey Design, in Tbilisi (Georgia), April 2005. This was the workshop which marked the beginning of a series of regional workshops that would be completed in 2007. A total of 19 workshops were organized, on (1) Survey Design, (2) Data Processing, (3) Data Analysis and Report Writing, and (4) Data Archiving and Dissemination.




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Pictures from the MICS Archives

The MICS2 Analysis workshop in Istanbul, for the CEECIS countries (October 2000). Many of the facilitators and participants were enumerated in the de facto Turkish Population Census, which was carried out on one day, which happened to be the day before the workshop started.







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Monday, December 1, 2008

MICS3 Surveys In Progress

There are several MICS3 surveys that started late, and are currently in the process of data collection or processing. These surveys are in Mozambique, Angola, Kenya and Lebanon.

Mozambique and Lebanon are stand-alone MICS3 surveys. Kenya is not a national MICS and is progressively implemented at district level. Angola is an interesting example, where MICS has been combined with the World Bank-supported Household Budget Survey - to our knowledge, the first example of such a collaboration.

A full list of all MICS3 surveys and their progress will be posted here very soon.




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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Pictures from the MICS Archives

Pictures from the Pilot Test of MICS3 in Linden Town, Guyana, March 2005.
(1) Anthropometric measurements following an interview, (2) Classroom training, Linden Town.








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Thursday, November 20, 2008

MICS1 Programme Directive

This is very interesting. A "Programme Directive" was sent out by Kul Gautam on 28 April 1995, then Director of Programme Division at UNICEF New York (Kul was Deputy Executive Director before he retired last year), to all countries who intended to conduct MICS1 surveys. The document can be found here (if you have access to the UNICEF Intranet).
For non-UNICEF visitors of the blog, here are the main points in the document:
  1. More attention needs to be given to the MICS Manual (then, the 'Handbook')
  2. Getting sub-national estimates will greatly increase the cost and complexity of the survey
  3. Expert sampling advice needs to be sought
  4. Good training is essential
  5. Two surveys should not be carried out within two years (conceding that the previous recommendation on this was not realistic)
  6. Adherence to the wording in questionnaire modules is important
The document is fun to read, in many ways. See if there is anything we would not agree in Kul's diagnoses and recommendations, in 2008, after 13 years.



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