Mauritania Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2015
General Info
Original or alternative title
Enquête par Grappes à Indicateurs Multiples (MICS) 2015
Coverage type
Country
Time period covered
July, 2015 - November, 2015
Series or system
Data type
Survey:
Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative
Summary
The Mauritania Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2015 is part of MICS5, 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. For the 2015 Mauritania MICS, 14,342 women ages 15-49, and 4,691 men ages 15-49 were successfully interviewed from 11,765 households. Additionally, 10,663 questionnaires for children under five were completed.
Keywords
Agriculture, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child care, Child development, Child health care, Children, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, Dairy products, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Domestic violence, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Female circumcision, Female infertility, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Health facilities, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Height, Hepatitis B vaccines, Hepatitis vaccines, Hours worked, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, Hysterectomy, IUDs, Immunization, Infant care, Injectable contraceptives, Insecticide-treated bednets, Internet, Interventions, Iodine supplements, Land ownership, Summary birth history, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Lower respiratory infections, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal care, Maternal health, Measles vaccines, Medical tests, Menopause, Multiple births, Occupational risk factors, Oral rehydration therapy, PMTCT, Parental survival, Pentavalent vaccines, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Pneumococcal vaccines, Polio, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, Respiratory infections, Rotavirus vaccines, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Smokeless tobacco use, Spermicides, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Upper respiratory infections, VCT, Vision loss, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Zinc, Complete birth history
Citation
Funders
Publisher
Publication year
2018
Suggested citation
National Office of Statistics (Mauritania), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Mauritania Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2015. New York, United States of America: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2018.