Kosovo Agency of Statistics in collaboration with UNICEF has launched the two key finding reports reports of Multiple Inciator Cluster Survey (globaly known as MICS).
The Kosovo Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) carried out in 2013-2014 by the Kosovo Agency of Statistics, as part of the global MICS programme, was developed by UNICEF in the 1990s.
Kosovo MICS was conducted in parallel to the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian Communities in Kosovo MICS which was based on a separate sample.
MICS survey provides up-to-date information for assessing the situation of children, women and men as well as to provide data for monitoring existing strategies and action plans
For the Kosovo MICS with main popullation, 4,127 households were interviewed throughout Kosovo including about 10,000 individual interviews with women, men and mothers (or caretakers) with extremely high response rate of 94%.
While for the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in Kosovo MICS, 1,118 households were interviewed throughout Kosovo including about 3,000 individual interviews with women, men and mothers (or caretakers) with extremely high response rate of 95%.
The final survey reports are expected to be released in September 2015.

Some of the key findings from Kosovo MICS
•    1 in 8 women throughout Kosovo had at least one live birth in the last 2 years.
•    15 children out of every 1,000 live birth will not reach their fifth birthday (under-five mortality rate i.e. the probability of dying between birth and the fifth birthday).
•    2 in 5 women throughout Kosovo practice exclusive breastfeeding.
•    2.3 is the total fertility rate among Kosovo women age 15-49.
•    1 in 3 women throughout Kosovo are not using any method of contraception and more than half of those are using withdrawal which is not considered a modern method.
•    Only 14% of children throughout Kosovo attend early childhood education.
•    Only 6% of fathers engage with their children in four or more activities to promote learning and school readiness in the last 3 days.
•    11% of children are involved in child labor.
•    2 in 3 households practiced some sort of violent discipline (either psychological aggression or physical punishment during the last month).
•    Almost half of the women state that a husband is justified to hit or beat his wife for a variety of reasons (9 reasons).

Some of the key findings from Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian Communities in Kosovo MICS
•    Half of the women from Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian Communities had at least one live birth in the last 2 years.
•    49 children out of every 1,000 live birth will not reach their fifth birthday (under-five mortality rate i.e. the probability of dying between birth and the fifth birthday).
•    Only 1 in 6 women from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities practise exclusive breastfeeding.
•    Only 1 in 3 children from Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities are fully immunized (received all vaccines recommended as per Kosovo immunization schedule).
•    3.7 is the total fertility rate among Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian women age 15-49 in Kosovo.
•    Almost half of the women from Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities are not using any method of contraception and most of them are using withdrawal which is not considered a modern method.
•    1 in 4 women from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in Kosovo is illiterate.
•    17% of children from Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities are involved in child labor.
•    4 in 5 households from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities practiced some sort of violent discipline (either psychological aggression or physical punishment during the last month).
•    3 in 4 women from Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities state that a husband is justified to hit or beat his wife for a variety of reasons (9 reasons).
•    12% of women from Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in Kosovo are married by age 15 and 43% by age 18.

MICS was implemented with the financial support of: UNICEF, the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of Austria, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (MLSW). While, UNICEF, UNFPA and MLSW as well as the World Health Organisation, the National Institute of Public Health, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the Office of Strategic Planning and the Kosovo Agency of Statistics of the Office of the Prime Minister were represented on the Inter-Ministerial Technical and Steering Committees. Technical support was provided throughout the entire process through the secondment of UNICEF Staff and Consultants to work alongside the Kosovo Agency of Statistics during all stages of the implementation of these surveys. Without the accompaniment and support of UNICEF Kosovo these two surveys would not have been possible. The Kosovo Agency of Statistics is grateful to the UNICEF Office in Kosovo for its collaboration.