Harmonized Data from Household Surveys on the Status and Well-being of Children, Adolescents, and Their Families: MICS and IPUMS MICS

By Anna Bolgrien, Attila Hancioglu, Miriam King, Elizabeth Heger Boyle
English

UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) is one of the world’s largest household survey programs focused on children and women. IPUMS MICS, a collaboration between UNICEF and IPUMS, simplifies analyzing the MICS data across time and space. Public use microdata files from MICS currently comprise 260 samples from around the world, from 1999 forward; 218 of these samples are currently covered by IPUMS MICS. IPUMS MICS supplies extensive online documentation and facilitates variable and sample discovery. IPUMS MICS users can generate customized code that, when executed locally, creates tailor-made data files, making these data comparable across time and place. Data on children address illness and treatment, physical and educational development, labor, discipline, and family relationships. The data also include demographics, housing, education, fertility, mortality, marriage and sex, family planning, domestic violence, media exposure, HIV, maternal and infant health, and many other topics related to health and health care.

Keywords

  • global health
  • women’s health and well-being
  • child health and well-being
  • household survey
  • UNICEF
  • IPUMS
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