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Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2006

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2006
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    Survey ID number

    BIH_2006_MICS_v01_M

    Title

    Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2006

    Country
    Name Country code
    Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH
    Study type

    Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey - Round 3 [hh/mics-3]

    Series Information

    The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, Round 3 (MICS3) is the third round of MICS surveys, previously conducted around 1995 (MICS1) and 2000 (MICS2). Many questions and indicators are consistent and compatible with the prior round of MICS (MICS2) but less so with MICS1, although there have been a number of changes in definition of indicators between rounds. Details can be found by reviewing the indicator definitions.

    Abstract

    The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) is a household survey programme developed by UNICEF to assist countries in filling data gaps for monitoring human development in general and the situation of children and women in particular. MICS is capable of producing statistically sound, internationally comparable estimates of social indicators. The current round of MICS is focused on providing a monitoring tool for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the World Fit for Children (WFFC), as well as for other major international commitments, such as the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS and the Abuja targets for malaria.

    Survey Objectives
    The 2006 Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey has as its primary objectives:

    • To provide up-to-date information for assessing the situation of children and women in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    • To furnish data needed for monitoring progress toward goals established in the Millennium Declaration, the goals of A World Fit For Children (WFFC), and other internationally agreed upon goals, as a basis for future action;
    • To contribute to the improvement of data and monitoring systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to strengthen technical expertise in the design, implementation, and analysis of such systems.

    Survey Content
    MICS questionnaires are designed in a modular fashion that can be easily customized to the needs of a country. They consist of a household questionnaire, a questionnaire for women aged 15-49 and a questionnaire for children under the age of five (to be administered to the mother or caretaker). Other than a set of core modules, countries can select which modules they want to include in each questionnaire.

    The 2006 BiH Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey also included a module referring to household income and expenditure within the household questionnaire.

    Survey Implementation
    The survey was carried out by Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska and FBiH Public Health Institute, with the support and assistance of UNICEF and other partners. Technical assistance and training for the surveys is provided through a series of regional workshops, covering questionnaire content, sampling and survey implementation; data processing; data quality and data analysis; report writing and dissemination.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Households (defined as a group of persons who usually live and eat together)

    De jure household members (defined as memers of the household who usually live in the household, which may include people who did not sleep in the household the previous night, but does not include visitors who slept in the household the previous night but do not usually live in the household)

    Women aged 15-49

    Children aged 0-4

    Version

    Version Description

    Version 1.0: Edited data used for final report

    Version Date

    2007-11-16

    Scope

    Notes

    The BiH Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey included the following modules in the questionnaires:

    HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONNAIRE : Household listing, education, water and sanitation, household characteristics,child labour, child discipline, child disability, household expenditure, and household income.

    WOMEN'S QUESTIONNAIRE: Women's characteristics, marriage-union, contraception and unmet need, attitude toward domestic violence, sexual behavior, and HIV/AIDS knowledge.

    CHILDREN'S QUESTIONNAIRE: Children's characteristics, birth registration and early learning, child development, breastfeeding, care of illness, immunization, and anthropometry.

    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary
    Household members MICS Topics
    Education MICS Topics
    Water and sanitation MICS Topics
    Household characteristics MICS Topics
    Security of tenure MICS Topics
    Durability of housing MICS Topics
    Child labour MICS Topics
    Child discipline MICS Topics
    Disability MICS Topics
    Household expenditure Country Cpecific Topics
    Household incomes Country Cpecific Topics
    Women's background MICS Topics
    Maternal and newborn health MICS Topics
    Marriage and union MICS Topics
    Contraception and umnet need MICS Topics
    Attitudes towards domestic violence MICS Topics
    Sexual behaviour MICS Topics
    HIV/AIDS MICS Topics
    Support to children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS MICS Topics
    Children's background MICS Topics
    Birth registration MICS Topics
    Early learning MICS Topics
    Child development MICS Topics
    Breastfeeding MICS Topics
    Care of illness MICS Topics
    Immunization MICS Topics
    Anthropometry MICS Topics

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey is nationally representative and covers the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    Universe

    The survey covered all de jure household members (usual residents), all women aged 15-49 years resident in the household, and all children aged 0-4 years (under age 5) resident in the household.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Federation Public Health Institute Ministry of Health
    Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Directorate for Economic Planning Bosnia and Herzegovina Directorate for Economic Planning Bosnia and Herzegovina Directorate for Economic Planning Bosnia and Herzegovina Directorate for Economic Planning Bosnia and Herzegovina Council of Ministers Preparation of state final report
    BiH Agency for Statistics Preparation of sample frame
    Federal Office of Statistics Technical implementation of sample frame on FBiH
    Statistical Office of Republika Srpska Technical implementation of sample frame on FBiH
    UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina UNICEF Technical assistance
    UNICEF Regional MICS coordinator UNICEF International technical assistance
    UNICEF Regional M&E officer UNICEF International technical assistance
    Strategic Information Section, Division of Policy and Planning, UNICEF NYHQ UNICEF International technical assistance
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    UNICEF Funding of survey implementation
    Department for International Development Funding of survey implementation
    Organisation for economic co-operation and development Financial and technical support in data archiving

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The principal objective of the sample design was to provide current and reliable estimates on a set of indicators covering the four major areas of the World Fit for Children declaration, including promoting healthy lives; providing quality education; protecting against abuse, exploitation and violence; and combating HIV/AIDS. The population covered by the 2006 MICS is defined as the universe of all women aged 15-49 and all children aged under 5. A sample of households was selected and all women aged 15-49 identified as usual residents of these households were interviewed. In addition, the mother or the caretaker of all children aged under 5 who were usual residents of the household were also interviewed about the child.

    The 2006 MICS collected data from a nationally representative sample of households, women and children. The primary focus of the 2006 MICS was to provide estimates of key population and health, education, child protection and HIV related indicators for the country as a whole and for urban and rural areas separately. In addition, the sample was designed to provide estimates for each of the two entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) and the Republika Srpska (RS) for key indicators (owing to the constraints in the survey budget, the Brcko District is represented in the same way as other municipalities in BiH). Each entity is subdivided into municipalities. In addition municipalities in Federation of BiH are grouped into 10 cantons. Each municipality is divided into settlements, settlements into statistical circles and each circle into enumeration areas. In total BiH includes 154 municipalities, 12 thousands circles and 18 thousands enumeration areas. The sample frame for this survey was based on list of enumeration areas developed from the 1991 population census. In 2006 the update of 1500 enumeration areas was done and this master sample frame was used for sample selection.

    The primary sampling unit (PSU), the cluster for the 2006 MICS, is defined on the basis of the enumeration areas from the master sample frame. A total of 455 census enumeration areas were systematically selected from the Master Sample with equal probability. All households from 455 census enumeration areas were allocated to two household lists. The first list (type 1) consisted of all households with children under five, and the second list consisted of all other households. 3,000 households having equal selection probability were selected from each list. This meant that each household from the list had the same selection probability. As the lists were different, the households with different sizes from different lists had different selection probability. Thus, a sample was obtained, which was self-weighted at the level of each list but is not self-weighted at the national level.

    The number of households within each cluster is unequal and proportional to the cluster size.

    The households in each list were implicitly stratified, i.e. sorted by entity/district, by urban/rural classification, by order of census enumeration area within the municipality, and by ordinal number within the cluster.

    No replacement of households was permitted in case of non-response or non-contactable households. Adjustments were made to the sampling weights to correct for non-response, according to MICS standard procedures.

    The sampling procedures are more fully described in the sampling design document and the sampling appendix of the final report.

    Deviations from the Sample Design

    No major deviations from the original sample design were made. All sample enumeration areas were accessed and successfully interviewed with good response rates.

    Response Rate

    At the BiH level (Table HH.1), 5,549 households were successfully interviewed and the response rate reached 93.4 percent. In the interviewed households, 4,977 women were identified within the sample range, out of which 4,890 were interviewed. A total of 3,209 children under five years-of-age were listed in the household questionnaire, and the questionnaire was completed for 3,188 children. The ratio of responses for children under five differed significantly between rural areas (89.0 percent) and other areas (95.2 percent).

    In the Republika Srpska, 2,019, out of the 2,129 households selected for the sample, were successfully interviewed, yielding a household response rate of 96.0 percent. In the interviewed households, 1,658 women aged 15-49 were identified and 1,620 successfully interviewed (97.7 percent response rate). In addition, out of the 1,086 children under the age of five listed in the household questionnaire, 1,071 had their questionnaires completed, which corresponds to a response rate of 98.6 percent. Overall response rates of 93.8 and 94.7 percent are calculated for the 15-49 women's and under-fives' interviews respectively.

    In the Federation of BiH, of the 3,744 households selected for the sample, 3,710 were available for interview, and 3,413 were successfully interviewed (92 percent response rate). In the interviewed households, 3,221 women (aged 15-49) were identified and 3,175 successfully interviewed, yielding a response rate of 98.6 percent. In addition, 2,065 children under the age of five were listed in the household questionnaire and questionnaires were completed for 2,060 of these children (99.8 percent response rate). Overall response rates of 90.7 and 91.8 percent are calculated for the 15-49 women's and under-fives' interviews respectively.

    Weighting

    Sample weights were calculated for each of the datafiles.

    Sample weights for the household data were computed as the inverse of the probability of selection of the household, computed at the sampling domain level (household with children under 5 and all other households). The household weights were adjusted for non-response at the domain level, and were then normalized by a constant factor so that the total weighted number of households equals the total unweighted number of households. The household weight variable is called HHWEIGHT and is used with the HH data and the HL data.

    Sample weights for the women's data used the un-normalized household weights, adjusted for non-response for the women's questionnaire, and were then normalized by a constant factor so that the total weighted number of women's cases equals the total unweighted number of women's cases.

    Sample weights for the children's data followed the same approach as the women's and used the un-normalized household weights, adjusted for non-response for the children's questionnaire, and were then normalized by a constant factor so that the total weighted number of children's cases equals the total unweighted number of children's cases.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The questionnaires for the BiH MICS were structured questionnaires based on the MICS3 Model Questionnaire with some modifications and additions. A household questionnaire was administered in each household, which collected various information on household members including sex, age, relationship, and orphanhood status. The household questionnaire includes household listing, education, water and sanitation, household characteristics,child labour, child discipline, child disability, household expenditure, and household incomes.

    In addition to a household questionnaire, questionnaires were administered in each household for women age 15-49 and children under age five. For children, the questionnaire was administered to the mother or caretaker of the child.

    The women's questionnaire includes women's characteristics, marriage-union, contraception and unmet need, attitude toward domestic violence, sexual behavior, and HIV/AIDS knowledge.

    The children's questionnaire includes children's characteristics, birth registration and early learning, child development, breastfeeding, care of illness, immunization, and anthropometry.

    The questionnaires were developed in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian from the MICS3 Model Questionnaires. After an initial review the questionnaires were translated back into English by an independent translator with no prior knowledge of the survey. The back translation from theBosnian, Serbian and Croatian versions was independently reviewed and compared to the English original. Differences in translation were reviewed and resolved in collaboration with the original translators.

    The Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian questionnaires were both piloted as part of the survey pretest.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2006-05-15 2006-07-30
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska
    FBiH Public Health Institute Ministry of Health FBiH
    Supervision

    Interviewing was conducted by teams of interviewers. Each interviewing team comprised of 3-4 interviewers.

    The role of the supervisor was to coordinate field data collection activities, including management of the field teams, supplies and equipment, finances, maps and listings, coordinate with local authorities concerning the survey plan and make arrangements for accommodation and travel. Additionally, the field supervisor assigned the work to the interviewers, spot checked work, maintained field control documents, and sent completed questionnaires and progress reports to the central office. They were also responsible for reviewing each questionnaire at the end of the day, checking for missed questions, skip errors, fields incorrectly completed, and checking for inconsistencies in the data. The field editor also observed interviews and conducted review sessions with interviewers.

    Responsibilities of the supervisors described in the Instructions for Supervisors, together with the different field controls that were in place to control the quality of the fieldwork.

    Field visits were also made by a team of central staff on a periodic basis during fieldwork. The senior staff of Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska, FBiH Public Health Institutealso and UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina were responsible for quality control on 10% of sampled household.

    Also one visit from supervisor from Strategic Information Section, Division of Policy and Planning, UNICEF NYHQ was made.

    Data Collection Notes

    During April 2006, the pre-test for the Republika Srpska in the Banja Luka region, whereas the pre-test in FBiH was conducted in April 2006 in households in the Sarajevo Canton. The plan envisaged the conduct of interviews in 111 households obtained by random choice from the Main Sampling Frame. The pre-test was succesfully conducted in 84 households. Pre-test included 10 interviewers who would later become supervisors for the main survey.

    Fieldwork was implemented by two entity teams. In the RS, the data was collected by four teams. Each team was comprised of three to four interviewers and one supervisor. The fieldwork began on 15 May 2006 and concluded on 10 July 2006. In FBiH the data was collected by eight teams (23 interviewers) who were organised at the cantonal level. The teams were comprised of supervisors and interviewers, whose number depended on the number of households to be interviewed in the field. In FBiH, fieldwork began on 20 May 2006 and concluded on 30 July 2006.

    Interviews averaged 35 minutes for the household questionnaire, 23 minutes for the women's questionnaire, and 27 for the under five children's questionnaire (excluding the anthropometry). Interviews were conducted primarily in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian.

    Four staff members of Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska and FBiH Public Health Institute provided overall fieldwork coordination and supervision. The overall field supervisors were Irena Jokic, Amela Lolic, Aida Pilav and Miroslav Stijak.

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    Data editing took place at a number of stages throughout the processing (see Other processing), including:
    a) Office editing and coding
    b) During data entry
    c) Structure checking and completeness
    d) Secondary editing
    e) Structural checking of SPSS data files

    Detailed documentation of the editing of data can be found in the data processing guidelines

    Data appraisal

    Estimates of Sampling Error

    Estimates from a sample survey are affected by two types of errors: 1) non-sampling errors and 2) sampling errors. Non-sampling errors are the results of mistakes made in the implementation of data collection and data processing. Numerous efforts were made during implementation of the 2006 MICS to minimize this type of error, however, non-sampling errors are impossible to avoid and difficult to evaluate statistically.

    Sampling errors can be evaluated statistically. The sample of respondents to the 2006 MICS is only one of many possible samples that could have been selected from the same population, using the same design and expected size. Each of these samples would yield results that differe somewhat from the results of the actual sample selected. Sampling errors are a measure of the variability in the results of the survey between all possible samples, and, although, the degree of variability is not known exactly, it can be estimated from the survey results. The sampling erros are measured in terms of the standard error for a particular statistic (mean or percentage), which is the square root of the variance. Confidence intervals are calculated for each statistic within which the true value for the population can be assumed to fall. Plus or minus two standard errors of the statistic is used for key statistics presented in MICS, equivalent to a 95 percent confidence interval.

    If the sample of respondents had been a simple random sample, it would have been possible to use straightforward formulae for calculating sampling errors. However, the 2006 MICS sample is the result of a multi-stage stratified design, and consequently needs to use more complex formulae. For the calculation of sampling errors from MICS data, STATA 7.0 has been used.

    Sampling errors have been calculated for a select set of statistics (all of which are proportions due to the limitations of the Taylor linearization method) for the national sample, urban and rural areas, and for each of the five regions. For each statistic, the estimate, its standard error, the coefficient of variation (or relative error -- the ratio between the standard error and the estimate), the design effect, and the square root design effect (DEFT -- the ratio between the standard error using the given sample design and the standard error that would result if a simple random sample had been used), as well as the 95 percent confidence intervals (+/-2 standard errors).

    Details of the sampling errors are presented in the sampling errors appendix to the report and in the sampling errors table presented in te external resources.

    Data Appraisal

    A series of data quality tables and graphs are available to review the quality of the data and include the following:
    Age distribution of the household population
    Age distribution of eligible women and interviewed women
    Age distribution of eligible children and children for whom the mother or caretaker was interviewed
    Age distribution of children under age 5 by 3 month groups
    Age and period ratios at boundaries of eligibility
    Percent of observations with missing information on selected variables
    Presence of mother in the household and person interviewed for the under 5 questionnaire
    School attendance by single year age
    Distribution of women by time since last birth
    Scatterplot of weight by height, weight by age and height by age
    Graph of male and female population by single years of age
    Population pyramid

    The results of each of these data quality tables is shown in the appendix of the final report and is also given in the external resources section.

    The general rule for presentation of missing data in the final report tabulations is that a column is presented for missing data if the percentage of cases with missing data is 1% or more. Cases with missing data on the background characteristics (e.g. education) are included in the tables, but the missing data rows are suppressed and noted at the bottom of the tables in the report (not in the SPSS output, however).

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina UNICEF www.unicef.ba sarajevo@unicef.org
    Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska www.vladars.net/en/min
    Ministry of Health FBiH www.fmoh.gov.ba
    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes Users of the data agree to keep confidential all data contained in these datasets and to make no attempt to identify, trace or contact any individual whose data is included in these datasets.
    Access conditions

    Survey datasets are distributed at no cost for legitimate research, with the condition that we receive a detailed description of the objectives of any research project that will be using the data prior to authorizing their distribution. Copies of all reports and publications based on the requested data must be sent to Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska and Ministry of Health FBiH and UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    1. The Public Health Institute of BiH Federation (dir@bih.net.ba)
    2. Directorate for Economic Planning, Bosnia and Herzegovina (dep@dep.gov.ba/sstanic@dep.gov.ba)

    Requests for access to the datasets may be made through the website www.childinfo.org.

    Citation requirements

    Directorate for Economic Planning Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska, FBiH Public Health Institute, BiH. Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey: Household , household listing, women and children's files, 2006 [Computer file]. Banja Luka, Sarajevo, BiH: Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska, FBiH Public Health Institute [producer], 2006. Banja Luka, Sarajevo, BiH: Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska, FBiH Public Health Institute, UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina and New York: Strategic Information Section, Division of Policy and Planning, UNICEF [distributors], 2006.

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska and FBiH Public Health Institute provides these data to external users without any warranty or responsibility implied. UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska and FBiH Public Health Institute accept no responsibility for the results and/or implications of any actions resulting from the use of these data.

    Copyright

    2007, UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina UNICEF sarajevo@unicef.org http://www.unicef.org/bih/
    Federal Office of Statistics http://www.fzs.ba/
    General Inquiries UNICEF childinfo@unicef.org http://www.childinfo.org/
    MICS Programme Manager UNICEF mics@unicef.org http://www.childinfo.org/

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_BIH_2006_MICS_v01_M

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Adilovic, Edina Agency for Statistics, BiH Customization of generic template
    Bjelic, Ivana Strategic Marketing Research Data producer and customization of generic template
    Croft, Trevor Blancroft Research International Producer of generic example
    Halilovic, Amra Agency for Statistics, BiH Customization of generic template
    Kratina, Mirha UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina Technical support in data archiving
    Krupic, Muris Public Health Institute FBiH Customization of generic template
    Memic, Fahrudin Federal Office of Statistics, FBiH Data producer and customization of generic template
    Stijak, Miroslav Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, RS Data producer and customization of generic template
    Topcic Elmedin Directorate for Economic Planning, BiH Customization of generic template
    Tukvlija, Sanela Public Health Institute FBiH Customization of generic template
    James, Rhiannon UNICEF Customization of BiH MICS Archive for childinfo.org
    Date of Metadata Production

    2008-03

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    BiH MICS 2006 UNICEF v0.1
    Slightly edited version of UNICEF's DDI ref. DDI-BIH-DEP-MoHFBiH-MoHSWRS-MICS2006/1.0-v0.1

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