MICS methodological papers

MICS Methodological Paper No. 11, 2021, Menstrual Hygiene Management - Evidence from the 6th round of MICS

This report analyses new data on Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) collected by Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) programme. The recognition that the ability of women and adolescent girls to manage their menstrual cycle safely and in privacy is fundamental to their health and well-being led to the introduction of a new set of questions on MHM in the standard MICS6 questionnaires in 2017. MICS became one of the first global household survey programmes to collect comparable information on the use of menstrual hygiene materials, access to a private place to wash and change, and exclusion from school, work or social activities during menstruation. To date, close to 50 surveys across the world have collected comparable data on MHM as part of MICS6.

Publication date
01 January 2021
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