Multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS) report for The Turks and Caicos Islands
Monitoring the situation of children and women in 2019 and 2020
Highlights
The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) was carried out in 2019-2020by the Department of Statistics(DOS) in collaboration with the Department of Social Development and the Ministry of Health, Agriculture, Sports & Human Services, as part of the Global MICS Programme. Technical support was provided by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), with government funding and financial support of UNICEF. The Global MICS Programme was developed by UNICEF in the 1990s as an international multi-purpose household survey programme to support countries in collecting internationally comparable data on a wide range of indicators on the situation of children and women. MICS surveys measure key indicators that allow countries to generate data for use in policies, programmes, and national development plans, and to monitor progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other internationally agreed upon commitments. Additionally, the TCI 2019-2020MICSwillhelp to monitor progress under the TCI Child Safeguarding National Action Plan and the TCI Medium Term Development Strategy 2018-2022, as well as to fill data gaps on the situation of men. The objective of this report is to facilitate the timely dissemination and use of results from the TCI 2019-2020MICS. The report contains detailed information on the surveymethodology, and all standard MICS tables. The report is accompanied by a series of Statistical Snapshots of the main findings of the survey. For more information on the Global MICS Programme, please go to mics.unicef.org.
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