The MICS Punjab, 2017-18 has as its primary objectives: To provide high quality data for assessing the situation of children, adolescents, women and households in Punjab; To furnish data needed for monitoring progress toward national goals, as a basis for future action; To collect disaggregated data for the identification of disparities, to inform policies aimed at social inclusion of the most vulnerable; To validate data from other sources and the results of focused interventions; To generate data on national and global SDG indicators; To generate internationally comparable data for the assessment of the progress made in various areas, and to put additional efforts in those areas that require more attention; To generate behavioural and attitudinal data not available in other data sources.
