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India Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 1995-1996

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General Info
Provider 
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Tabulations only
Geography 
India (IND)
Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal
Coverage type 
Subnational
Time period covered 
01/1995 - 12/1996
Series or system 
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)
MICS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The India Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 1995-1996 is part of round 1 of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) series, an international survey initiative to monitor the situation of children and women. Topics covered in the MICS are intended to provide data that can be used to assess progress towards mid-decade goals defined at the United Nations 1990 World Summit for Children. The 1995-1996 India MICS is covers 20 states, over 14,000 households, and more than 800,000 individuals. Information was collected on immunization, breastfeeding, maternal health, and caregiver knowledge of the treatment of diarrhea and respiratory diseases in children.

Keywords 
Abortion, Abortive outcome, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, BCG vaccines, Beds, Blood pressure, Breastfeeding, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Child labor, Child mortality, Children, Condoms, Congenital anomalies, Contraceptives, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Digestive diseases, Education expenditures, Family planning, Fertility, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Health literacy, Health status, Household expenditures, Immunization, Income, Infant mortality, Injections, Injuries, Iodine supplements, Life expectancy, Literacy, Live births, Malnutrition, Maternal age, Maternal hemorrhage, Maternal mortality, Maternal sepsis, Measles vaccines, Micronutrient supplements, Mortality, Neurological conditions, Nurses, Obstructed labor, Oral rehydration therapy, Physicians, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Population, Population density, Poverty, Pregnancy complications, Preterm birth, Preterm birth complications, Public social assistance, Respiratory infections, Sanitation, School conditions, School enrollment, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Social class, Summary birth history, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Vitamin A supplements, Water supply
GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 12, 2023