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Belarus Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2005

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General Info
Provider 
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
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Geography 
Belarus (BLR)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
11/2005 - 12/2005
Series or system 
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)
MICS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
Summary 

Part of MICS3, the 2005 Belarus Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey was a nationally representative health interview survey with an emphasis on the health of children and women, education, vaccination, and contraceptive use. The survey is also representative at the subnational level. Questionnaires were completed for 6,707 households, 5,895 women ages 15-49 and 3,051 under-five children. The 2005 Belarus MICS included three questionnaires:

  • A household questionnaire that collected basic information on household members, as well as covering topics such as housing conditions, water supply, and sanitation.
  • An individual women’s questionnaire that included topics such as child mortality, maternal health, contraceptive use, and health literacy.
  • A questionnaire that collected information about children under-five in surveyed households. The collection information relating to child development, breastfeeding, immunization, health care for children, and child anthropometry.
Keywords 
Analgesics, Antenatal care, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Child anthropometry, Child development, Child labor, Child mortality, Community health clinics, Condoms, Congestion, Contraceptive implants, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Disability, Domestic violence, Education, Electricity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Health care use, Health literacy, Health promotion, Height, Hepatitis B vaccines, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, IUDs, Immunization, Injectable contraceptives, Summary birth history, Literacy, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, MMR vaccines, Malnutrition, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Mortality, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Reproductive health, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Spermicides, Telephones, Traditional birth control, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Vaccination cards, Water supply, Weight, Diarrheal diseases
GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 12, 2023