Questionnaires

The questionnaires for the Republic of Macedonia 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 education, water and sanitation, household characteristics, child discipline, child labour and child disability.

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 include women's characteristics, child mortality, maternal and newborn health, marriage, contraception, 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 English from the MICS3 Model Questionnaires, and were translated into Macedonian and Albanian.
The Macedonian and Albanian questionnaires were both piloted as part of the survey pretest, during 13-14 October 2005. Based on the results of pretest, modifications were made to the wording and translation of the questionnaires.

All questionnaires and modules are provided as external resources.