The Selected Districts of Papua Province Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) was conducted in 2011 by the Statistics Indonesia Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) with technical and financial support from UNICEF. Similar Survey was also conducted at the same time in West Papua Province. The survey provides valuable information on the situation of children and women in three selected districts of Papua Province: Merauke, Jayawijaya and Biak Numfor, and was based, in large part, on the need to furnish up-todate information on the situation of children and women in the selected districts of Papua Province to inform planning. This survey forms part of the fourth round of the global MICS surveys initiated in 1995 to monitor progress towards goals and targets emanating from recent international agreements: the Millennium Declaration, adopted by all 191 United Nations Member States in September 2000, and the Plan of Action of A World Fit For Children, adopted by 189 Member States at the United Nations Special Session on Children in May 2002. Both of these commitments build upon promises made by the international community at the 1990 World Summit for Children. The Selected Districts of Papua MICS was designed to collect information across a broad number of social indicators covering education, environment, health and child protection. The sample for the 2011 Selected Districts of Papua Province MICS was selected in two stages. Within each district, a specified number of census enumeration areas were selected systematically with probability proportional to size. After a household listing was carried out within the selected enumeration areas, a systematic sample of 25 households was drawn in each sample enumeration area. The total sample size was 3,000 households (1,000 for each district). The sample is not self-weighting and sample weights are used.
