BGD-BBS-MICS-2019-v01
DDI-BGD-BBS-MICS-2019-v01
BANGLADESH BUREAU OF STATISTICS
Nesstar Publisher
BGD-BBS-MICS-2019-v01
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2019
MICS 2019
BGD-BBS-MICS-2019-v01
Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
United Nations Children's Fund
2019-07-03
Nesstar Publisher
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey[hh/mics]
The Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) was carried out in 2019 by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in collaboration with UNICEF Bangladesh, as part of the Global MICS Programme. Technical support was provided by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). During data collection, UNFPA Bangladesh has also provided financial resource to undertake quality assurance visits. The Global MICS Programme was developed by UNICEF in the 1990s as an international multi-purpose household survey programme to support countries in collecting internationally comparable data on a wide range of indicators on the situation of children and women. MICS surveys measure key indicators that allow countries to generate data for use in policies, programmes, and national development plans, and to monitor progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other internationally agreed upon commitments. The objective of this report is to facilitate the timely dissemination and use of results from the Bangladesh MICS 2019. The report contains detailed information on the survey methodology, and all standard MICS tables. The report is accompanied by a series of Statistical Snapshots of the main findings of the survey. For more information on the Global MICS Programme, please go to www.mics.unicef.org
Bangladesh
Sample survey data [ssd]
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
United Nations Children's Fund
The sample for the Bangladesh MICS 2019 was designed to provide estimates for a large number of indicators on the situation of children and women at the national level, for urban and rural areas, for eight divisions and sixty-four districts. The number of primary sampling unit (PSU) and number of sampled households in the survey were 3,220 and 64,400 respectively. The urban and rural areas within each district was identified as the main sampling strata and the sample of households were selected in two stages. Within each stratum, a specified number of census enumeration areas were selected systematically with probability proportional to size. After a household listing was carried out within the selected enumeration areas, a systematic sample of 20 households was drawn in each sample PSUs. As the sample is not self-weighting, sample weights are used for reporting survey results. A more detailed description of the sample design can be found in Appendix A: ‘Sample Design’.
Face-to-face [f2f]
Five questionnaires were used in the survey: 1) A household questionnaire to collect basic demographic information on all de jure household members (usual residents), the household, and the dwelling; 2) A water quality testing questionnaire administered in four households in each clusters of the sample for arsenic and two households for E. coli ; 3) A questionnaire for individual women administered in each household to all women age 15-49 years; 4) An under-5 questionnaire, administered to mothers (or caretakers) of all children under 5 living in the household; and 5) a questionnaire for children age 5-17 years, administered to the mother (or caretaker) of one randomly selected child age 5-17 years living in the household1.
MICS survey utilises Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI). The data collection application was based on the CSPro (Census and Survey Processing System) software, Version 6.3, including a MICS dedicated data management platform. Procedures and standard programs6 developed under the global MICS programme were adapted to the Bangladesh MICS 2019 final questionnaires and used throughout. The CAPI application was tested in Gazipur district during October 7-15, 2018. Based on the results of the CAPI-test, modifications were made to the questionnaires and application.
Unique identifiers such as location and names collected during interviews were removed from datasets to ensure privacy. These anonymised data files are made available on the MICS website11 and can be freely downloaded for legitimate research purposes. Users are required to submit final research to entities listed in the included readme file, strictly for information purposes.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)
Social Policy, Evaluation, Analytics and Research Section (SPEAR)