Questionnaires

The questionnaires for the BiH MICS were structured questionnaires based on the MICS3 Model Questionnaire with some modifications and additions. A household questionnaire was administered in each household, which collected various information on household members including sex, age, relationship, and orphanhood status. The household questionnaire includes household listing, education, water and sanitation, household characteristics,child labour, child discipline, child disability, household expenditure, and household incomes.

In addition to a household questionnaire, questionnaires were administered in each household for women age 15-49 and children under age five. For children, the questionnaire was administered to the mother or caretaker of the child. 

The women's questionnaire includes women's characteristics, marriage-union, contraception and unmet need, attitude toward domestic violence, sexual behavior, and HIV/AIDS knowledge.

The children's questionnaire includes children's characteristics, birth registration and early learning, child development, breastfeeding, care of illness, immunization, and anthropometry.

The questionnaires were developed in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian from the MICS3 Model Questionnaires. After an initial review the questionnaires were translated back into English by an independent translator with no prior knowledge of the survey.  The back translation from theBosnian, Serbian and Croatian versions was independently reviewed and compared to the English original.  Differences in translation were reviewed and resolved in collaboration with the original translators.

The Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian questionnaires were both piloted as part of the survey pretest.