Questionnaires

The questionnaires for the Tajikistan 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, Insecticide treated Net (ITN) , Child Labour, Child Discipline, Maternal Mortality, and Salt Iodization.

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 and Union, Contraception, Attitudes Towards Domestic Violence, HIV knowledge, and Tuberculosis knowledge.

The children's questionnaire includes Children's Characteristics, Birth Registration and Early Learning, Child Development, Vitamin A, , Breastfeeding, Care of Illness, Malaria, Immunization, and Anthropometry.

The questionnaires were developed in Russian from the MICS3 Model Questionnaires, and were translated into Tajik.  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 the Russian version was independently reviewed and compared to the English original.  Differences in translation were reviewed and resolved in collaboration with the original translators.

The Tajik and Russian questionnaires were both piloted as part of the survey pretest.

All questionnaires and modules are provided as external resources.