The Suriname Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) was carried out in 2010 by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Housing in collaboration with General Bureau of Statistics and the Institute for Social Research (IMWO) of the University of Suriname. Financial and technical support was provided by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The Suriname MICS was carried out as part of the fourth round of the global MICS household survey programme with the technical and financial support from UNICEF. MICS is a nationally representative sample survey of women aged 15‐49 and children under age five of 7,407 responding households out of a total of 9,356 sampled households. The main purpose of MICS 2010 is to support the government of Suriname to generate statistically sound and comparable data for monitoring the situation of children and women in the country. MICS 4 covers topics related to nutrition, child health, water and sanitation, reproductive health, child development, literary and education, child protection, HIV and AIDS, mass media and the use of information and communication technology and attitude towards domestic violence.
