Nigeria - Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey/National Immunization Coverage Survey 2016-17, Fifth round (MICS) and NICS (third Round)
Reference ID | NGA-NBS-MICS5-NICS-2016-17-v1.1 |
Year | 2016 - 2017 |
Country | Nigeria |
Producer(s) | National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) - Federal Government of Nigeria |
Sponsor(s) | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Bill Gates - Funding partner United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF - Sponsor Save One Million Lives - SOML - Funding partner United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA - Funding partner World Bank - W |
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Created on | Feb 20, 2019 |
Last modified | Feb 20, 2019 |
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Data Appraisal
Estimates of Sampling Error The sample of respondents selected in the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2016 is only one of the samples that could have been selected from the same population, using the same design and size. Each of these samples would yield results that differ somewhat from the results of the actual sample selected. Sampling errors are a measure of the variability between the estimates from all possible samples. The extent of variability is not known exactly, but can be estimated statistically from the survey data. The following sampling error measures are presented in this appendix for each of the selected indicators: 1. Standard error (se): Standard error is the square root of the variance of the estimate. For survey indicators that are means, proportions or ratios, the Taylor series linearization method is used for the estimation of standard errors. For more complex statistics, such as fertility and mortality rates, the Jackknife repeated replication method is used for standard error estimation. 2. Coefficient of variation (se/r) is the ratio of the standard error to the value (r) of the indicator, and is a measure of the relative sampling error. 3. Design effect (deff) is the ratio of the actual variance of an indicator, under the sampling method used in the survey, to the variance calculated under the assumption of simple random sampling based on the same sample size. The square root of the design effect (deft) is used to show the efficiency of the sample design in relation to the precision. A deft value of 1.0 indicates that the sample design of the survey is as efficient as a simple random sample for a particular indicator, while a deft value above 1.0 indicates an increase in the standard error due to the use of a more complex sample design. 4. Confidence limits are calculated to show the interval which contains the true value of the indicator for the population, with a specified level of confidence. For MICS results 95% confidence intervals are used, which is the standard for this type of survey. The concept of the 95% confidence interval can be understood in this way: if many repeated samples of identical size and design were taken and the confidence interval computed for each sample, then 95% of these intervals would contain the true value of the indicator. For the calculation of sampling errors from MICS data, programs developed in CSPro Version 5.0, SPSS Version 21 Complex Samples module and CMRJack have been used. Details of the sampling errors are presented in the sampling errors table in the report presented in the external resources. | |
Other forms of Data Appraisal Series of tables and graphs were generated. |