Ghana - Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2011, Fourth round

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-MICS-2011-v1.1

Year

2011

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service - Autonomous

Sponsor(s)

United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF - Funding agency
United States Agency for International Development - USAID - Funding agency
US) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - - Provided funding
ICF Macro - - Provided funding

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

Created on

Sep 15, 2014

Last modified

Jun 03, 2015

Page views

1281342

Overview

Identification

Country

Ghana

Title

Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2011

Subtitle

Fourth round

Translated Title

No translation

Study Type

Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey - Round 4

Series Information

The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2011 is the fourth round in the series in Ghana and is a household survey programme developed by UNICEF in the mid 90's to assist countries in filling data gaps for monitoring the situation of children and women. The MICS data contain statistically sound, internationally comparable estimates of important social-demographic indicators to monitor the situation of children and women in Ghana. The MICS was originally developed in response to the World Summit for Children (WSC) held in 1990 to measure progress towards an internationally agreed set of mid-decade goals. In this sense, MICS was basically developed to fill existing data gaps and to inform and complement existing data collection methods and instruments (e.g. administrative records, census, vital events registration, etc.). The survey has generated a set of indicators to monitor most of the 27 goals of the World Summit for Children (WSC), plus an additional set of indicators to monitor child rights and newly emerging areas of concern, including for example, Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), malaria, child discipline and knowledge of HIV/AIDS. The MICS is focused on providing a monitoring tool for the World Fit for Children, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as well as other major international commitments, such as the UNGASS on HIV/AIDS and the Abuja targets for malaria. About 20 of the 48 MDG indicators could be derived from this survey; MICS offering one of the largest single source of data for MDG monitoring. For the fourth time, the survey would enable Ghana to monitor the trends in many indicators and set baselines for other statistics and indicators.

ID Number

GHA-GSS-MICS-2011-v1.1

Version

Version Description

Version 1.1 Edited

Production Date

2014-09-10

Notes

MICS 2011 had a module for Anaemia and Malaria Testing for Children Under Five. Children were tested for anaemia and malaria after seeking the consent of the parents. The malaria esting was done using the malaria rapid test. Those who tested positive for malaria were given malaria treatment while those whose results showed that they had severe anaemia or severe malaria were advised to seek treatment from a health facility.

There was a module on National Health Insurance to find out if households members had subscribed to the scheme and if not, why they were not holding a health insurance card to enable them access health facilities when ill.

Overview

Abstract

The Ghana Statistical Service, in collaboration with the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) and the Navrongo Health Research Centre of the Ghana Health Service, conducted the fourth round of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS 2011), with funding and technical support from UNICEF, USAID, US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and ICF Macro in Calverton, Maryland, USA. The main objective of the survey was to provide up-to-date information for assessing the health situation of the population, particularly women and children in Ghana.

MICS 2011 is a nationally representative household sample survey of 12,150 households in 810 enumeration areas (EAs). The survey is expected to provide estimates of all key health indicators at the national and regional levels, as well as for urban and rural areas. Moreover, four of the 10 regions that are of particular importance for UNICEF’s programmes will be disproportionally oversampled so as to provide some data at the district level. The four oversampled regions are Central, Northern, Upper East, and Upper West.

MICS 2011 uses four main questionnaires: a Household Questionnaire, a Woman’s Questionnaire for women age 15-49, a Man’s Questionnaire for men age 15-59, and a Child’s Questionnaire for children under five year (with questions posed to the child’s primary caretaker). Major topics covered in these questionnaires include household characteristics, characteristics of respondents, child mortality, child nutritional status, breastfeeding, Vitamin A supplementation, birth registration, birth weight, immunization, salt iodization, oral rehydration treatment, care seeking and antibiotic treatment of pneumonia, , the proportion of households with insecticide treated nets (ITNs), the proportion of the population that sleep under ITNs, solid fuel use, water and sanitation, contraception, antenatal care, delivery and postnatal care, child ,school attendance, literacy, child discipline, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), domestic violence (DV), sexual behaviour, HIV/AIDS and the prevalence of malaria parasites and anaemia among children aged 6-59 months. Consequently, blood samples of all children age 6-59 months will be collected for the malaria and anaemia tests. Although malaria indicators (e.g., bednet ownership and use, coverage of intermittent preventive treatment and treatment of childhood fever) will be collected in all households, the malaria and anaemia testing components will be implemented in all households in six regions, but confined to every second household in the four over-sampled regions.

It is hoped that the findings from MICS 2011 would provide up-to-date information on progress made towards targets set by the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II), the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other national and international programmes aimed at promoting the welfare of women and children. The results are also expected to help policy planners improve on access and quality of health-related services in the country.

The MICS 2011 data collection was carried out over a period of three months (September 15 -December 14, 2011) by 20 field teams spread across the country. In order to help achieve the objectives of the survey, enumeration areas (EAs) were selected in some towns and communities within the various districts. In each of these EAs, 15 households were visited and interviewed by a field team comprising of a Supervisor (team leader), 1 Field Editor, 3 Interviewers, 1 Biomarker Technician, and a driver.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Units of Analysis

Households and Individuals

Scope

Notes

The survey collected a wide range of information about households and the individual members of the household. These information include:

1. Household information: Individual members, head of household, sex, age, marital status, relation to head of household, education, water and sanitation, working children, child discipline,

disability and salt iodization

2. Children under 5 years: breastfeeding, care of illness, malaria, immunization, anthropometry, test for anaemia and malaria

3. Women 15-49 years: infant/child mortality, tetanus toxoid, maternal and newborn health, marriage/union, contraception, female genital mutilation, attitude towards domestic violence, sexual

behavior, and HIV/AIDS

4. Men 15-49 years: reproduction, marriage, sexual behavior, HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections and attitudes toward domestic violence

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
DEMOGRAPHY AND POPULATION [14]
HEALTH [8]
SOCIETY AND CULTURE [13]
EDUCATION [6]
employment [3.1]
fertility [14.2]
censuses [14.1]
morbidity and mortality [14.4]
PSYCHOLOGY [17]
LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT [3]

Keywords

Employment, Health, Education, Fertility, Mortality, HIV/AIDS, AIDS Virus, Malaria, Infant Mortality, Child Mortality, Tetanus Toxoid, Maternal and newborn health, Marriage, Union, Contraception, Female genital mutilation, Cutting, Domestic Violence, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Water and Sanitation, Household, Mosquito Nets, Working Children, Child Discipline, Disability, Salt Iodization, Breastfeeding, Care of illness, Immunization

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

National

Regional

Universe

The survey covered 810 enumeration areas and 12,150 households across the country. In terms of eligibility, it covered the following households members:

1. All women age 15-49 years

2. All men age 15-49 years

3. All children under 5 years

4. All household members

Producers and Sponsors

Primary Investigator(s)

Name	Affiliation
Ghana Statistical Service	Autonomous

Other Producer(s)

Name	Affiliation	Role
Ministry of Health	Govermnent of Ghana	Collaborating institution

Funding

Name	Abbreviation	Role
United Nations Children's Fund	UNICEF	Funding agency
United States Agency for International Development	USAID	Funding agency
US) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief		Provided funding
ICF Macro		Provided funding

Metadata Production

Metadata Produced By

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Ghana Statiscal Service	GSS	Office of the President	Lead documenting institution

Date of Metadata Production

2014-09-11

DDI Document Version

Version 1.1 (September, 2014).This version is identical to version 1.0, except that external resources has been included.

DDI Document ID

DDI-GHA-GSS-MICS-2011-v1.1