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Mauritania Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2007

General Info

Original or alternative title 
Enquête par Grappes à Indicateurs Multiples 2007
Provider 
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Microdata access: Register
Geography 
Mauritania (MRT)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
May, 2007 - September, 2007
Series or system 
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)
Data type
Survey: Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Mauritania Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2007 is part of MICS3, an international survey initiative to monitor the situation of children and women. Topics commonly covered in MICS include immunization, education, child and maternal health, family planning and knowledge of HIV/AIDS. MICS also provides data for tracking progress toward Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly those related to health, education and mortality.

Keywords 
Adult mortality, Analgesics, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, Antihelminthics, Antimalarials, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Child anthropometry, Child care, Child development, Child health care, Child labor, Community health clinics, Condoms, Congestion, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Disability, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Family composition, Family size, Female circumcision, Female infertility, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Health education, Health facilities, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Hearing loss, Height, Hepatitis B vaccines, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, IUDs, Immunization, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Insecticide-treated bednets, Iodine supplements, Languages, Summary birth history, Limited mobility, Literacy, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, MMR vaccines, Malaria, Malnutrition, Marital status, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Micronutrient supplements, Mortality, Oral rehydration therapy, PMTCT, Parental survival, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual sterilization, Sibling survival, Skilled birth attendants, Spermicides, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Traditional birth control, Traditional healers, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Vision loss, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Yellow fever vaccines

Citation

Contributors 
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
National Office of Statistics (Mauritania)
Funders 
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Government of Mauritania
International Development Association (IDA), World Bank
Publisher 
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Suggested citation 
National Office of Statistics (Mauritania), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Mauritania Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2007. New York, United States of America: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

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