From September to November the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP) and UNICEF will be collecting data from 10,000 selected households across the country. Survey staff and nurses will administer questionnaires to households, women aged 15 to 49, and mothers of children under five years of age. The weight, height and the level of hemoglobin of those children will also be measured in order to track their nutritional status.
UNICEF Mexico’s Goodwill Ambassador Cesar Costa promotes MICS/ENIM 2015
"We need to get to know them better to understand how they live" says Cesar Costa about boys, girls and women in Mexico.
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The first household visited by the MICS/ENIM survey team, Ciudad de México. |
The collected information will be crucial to monitor more than 100 indicators and identify the most disadvantaged groups based on age, sex, education, wealth, location of residence and ethnicity. This will provide the necessary information to better shape decisions, policies and services that will improve the living conditions for children and women. Furthermore, the survey will contribute to fill data gaps and generate relevant and timely information to enhance public policy oriented towards early childhood and facilitate the coordination and integration of programmes to address the rights of children in a more comprehensive way.
The Encuesta Nacional de los Niños, Niñas y Mujeres en México, 2015 (ENIM) as the MICS is called in Mexico, will also provide statistically sound and internationally comparable data on topics related to health, education, early childhood development and child protection.
INSP is a recognized authority in Mexico on public health research. It has a professional team of researchers and field workers with long term experience on raising national health surveys such as the Encuesta Nacional de Salud, in 1999 (ENSA) and Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición (ENSANUT) in 2006 and 2012.
Visit INSP's webpage on their MICS survey for additional information.