Overview

UNICEF has survey data on the well-being of children and women. This is an excellent resource and data are available from 118 countries. Visit their website at https://mics.unicef.org/ to learn more. 

Data from surveys in 2021/22 are now available from Nigeria and Benin.

MICS Data can easily be imported and analyses in R-Instat. We have two videos on MICS data.

The first is about accessing and importing MICS data

 

  

Video script prepared by Rachel Kirk-Gushowaty, and Roger Stern.  Video constructed and voiced by Beryl Waswa.

  • 0:00 Introduction 
  • 0:07 About MICS 
  • 0:23 Accessing data from Punjab in Pakistan 
  • 1:17 How to Register as a MICS data user 
  • 1:56 How to Download MICS data 
  • 2:30 How to Import MICS data into R-Instat 
  • 3:38 Checking the MICS data in R-Instat 
  • 4:13 Metadata 
  •  5:31 Saving the data in RDS format

(6 minutes)

The second is explore and tidy MICS data 

 

 

Video script prepared by Rachel Kirk-Gushowaty, and Roger Stern.  Video constructed and voiced by Beryl Waswa.

  • 0:00 Introduction 
  • 0:34 Column Metadata 
  • 1:59 Checking the MICS data 
  • 4:05 Data frame Metadata 
  • 5:53 Adding Labels to Data frames 
  • 6:23 Adding Key information for each Data frame 
  • 8:55 Adding comments to odd data points 
  • 10:42 Checking the Household file 
  • 12:42 Save the data

(13 minutes)