MICS-2000 (in brief)

Name and managing agency

• Multiple Indicator Survey 2000
• Surveys designed by Unicef to assess the situation of children at the end of the century
• Department of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Human Resources Development

Year and place

• 2000 for all states

Sampling

• 119305 households for India
• Stratified by state and urban/rural

Publication

• Summary report published in November 2001
• No raw data available so far
• http://www.childinfo.org/MICS2/newreports/india/india.htm (report)

Topics covered

• Household characteristics

School attendance, health status, nutrition, education, family planning, morbidity, registration of births