Data Processing
Data Editing
The MICS utilized tablet PCs for data collection. This environmental friendly solution offered many advantages including, sending the data collected from the field immediately to the central office at a click of a button, time saving from data entry (in the case of paper surveys), cost in the long term and ensuring information collected are of high quality. Figure SM.1 shows the data collection and transferring process used in the survey.
Figure SM.1: Data processing
The data collected by the interviewers from the respondents aggregated at the team supervisors and after required clarification and editing, the data was sent to the central network of the NSO. The data received at the central office were monitored and checked. Where additional clarifications were needed on a particular data, the team supervisors were made to contact the particular household. Followed by entering the survey data to online database using Census and Survey Processing System 5.03 (CSPro 5.03) public domain software. These followed procedures and standard programs developed under the global MICS programme and adapted to the SISS Mongolia 2013 questionnaire were used throughout.
Customization of the generic CDS syntaxes developed for MICS5 for the analysis of the data was done. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences Version 21.0 (SPSS) software program and model syntax and tabulation plans were developed by global MICS/UNICEF team.
