Overview
Abstract
Mongolia has conducted the Child Development Surveys in 1996, 2000, 2005 and 2010 based on the methodology of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (SISS), and the Reproductive Health Surveys in 1998, 2003 and 2008 based on the Demographic Health Survey methodology.
The National Statistical Office agreed to integrate the Child Development Survey (CDS) and the Reproductive Health Survey (RHS) due their involvement of significant financing, man force as well as timing and 2 years interval between them. Moreover, the survey methodologies have no difference in principles, uses same indicators and both disseminated at national and regional level. Therefore, some amendments made to the Law on Statistics and accordingly, legal arrangements were made to conduct Social Indicator Sample Survey every 5 years integrating the CDS and the RHS combined with the Demographic Health Survey.
Such an integration of 3 surveys in the Social Indicator Sample Survey 2013 is of great significance. A specific feature of this survey is the use of tablet PCs for data collection for the first time in Mongolia. The survey was conducted based on the SISS methodology.
Survey objective
The Mongolia Social Indicator Sample Survey has as its primary objectives:
• To provide up-to-date information for assessing the situation of children, women and men in Mongolia;
• To generate data for the critical assessment of the progress made in various areas;
• To furnish data needed for monitoring progress toward goals established in the Millennium Declaration and other internationallyand nationally agreed upon goals and programs
• To collect disaggregated data for the identification of disparities, to allow for evidence based policy-making aimed at social inclusion of the most vulnerable;
• To contribute to the generation of baseline data for the post-2015 agenda;
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Units of Analysis
Household and household members
In total, 384 baghs of 236 soums of 21 aimags and 220 khesegs of 75 khoroos of 9 districts of Ulaanbaatar were covered by the survey.
