The Guyana Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) is a household survey programme conducted in Guyana in 2014 by the Guyana Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Public Health, with technical support from UNICEF. The Guyana Multiple Indicator Survey 2014 is the third of its kind in Guyana, the first being in 2000 and the second being in 2006. Guyana MICS5 2014 is a nationally representative sample survey of households and was designed to provide statistically reliable estimates on a large number of indicators on the situation of children and women at the national level, for urban and rural areas, and for the two geographic sub-areas defined as interior areas and coastal areas. The global MICS programme was developed by UNICEF in the 1990s as an international household survey programme to support countries in the collection of 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 and programmes, and to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other internationally agreed upon commitments. The Guyana MICS 2014 results will be critically important for final MDG reporting in 2015, and are expected to form part of the baseline data for the post-2015 era. The survey initially targeted 6,000 households in 300 Enumeration Districts (EDs), i.e. 20 households per ED. However, four of the targeted EDs located in the interior areas were inaccessible during the fieldwork period. At the end, the survey sampled 5,904 households, of which 5,526 were found to be occupied. Of those occupied, 5,077 were successfully interviewed, resulting in a household response rate of 92 percent. The response rates for women, men and children were 87, 67 and 96 percent, respectively.
