The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has put in place plans to kick-start the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS).
In a statement signed by the Statistician General/CEO Mr. Yemi Kale and made available to Economic Confidential in Abuja, the MICS is a household based survey developed by UNICEF and designed to assess the situation of children and women in the areas of health, education, child protection and HIV/AIDS worldwide.
The statement further said that the MICS can be used as data collection tool in monitoring progress of national goals and global commitments aimed at promoting the welfare of children, including Sustainable development goal (SDGs). The data collection regarding MICS starts on Wednesday, 21st of Sept. 2016.
In Nigeria, this MICS is the fifth of a series which started in 1995 and has been extended to include questionnaire for individual men and modules such as water quality test, tobacco and alcohol use, life satisfaction, access to mass media and use of information communication technology.
MICS 5 is unique in many ways. It is the first time Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) is being used to collect data on MICS. In addition, National Immunization Coverage Survey (NICS) will be combined with MICS 5 making one National Survey at a time.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is the implementing Agency of MICS 5 with technical and financial support from UNICEF. Other major stakeholders in the implementation of MICS 5 include; Ministry of Budget and National Planning, National Population Commission, the Federal ministries of Health, Education, Agriculture and Water Resources, WHO, WB, NPHCDA, NACA, office of the Senior Special Assistant on SDGs, Lagos and Kano states.
The objectives of the survey include among others to provide up-to-date information on the situation of children and women in Nigeria, to strengthen national statistical capacity by focusing on data gathering, quality of survey information, statistical tracking and analysis, apart from contributing to the improvement of data and monitoring systems in Nigeria.
Other objectives of the survey include strengthening technical expertise in the design, implementation and analysis of such systems, to serve as baseline for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda and to provide statistics to complement and assess the quality of data from recent national surveys such as Nigerian General Household Panel Survey (NGHPS) and National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) conducted by National Population Commission.
MICS 5 will cover all the states of the federation and FCT. Nine hundred and sixty (960) selected households will be interviewed in each state. NBS enumerators will be in the field from for 92 days starting from 7th September, 2016 to administer questionnaires on the selected households for the survey. You are kindly requested to volunteer the necessary information sought during this survey as your cooperation is pertinent to the success of the data collection exercise.
