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Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2011

Monitoring the situation of children and women

B e l i z e

Table 19: School Readiness

Table 20: Primary school completion and transition to secondary school

Table 21: HiV Knowledge

Table 23: life Satisfaction

CHildRen undeR 5 yRS BR

Corozal 93.3Orange Walk 95.2Belize (Excluding Belize City South Side) 96.2Belize City South Side 94.6Belize District 95.4Cayo 94.8Stann Creek 97.7Toledo 95.8

Table 15: Birth Registration

Table 16: Child labour (5-14yrs) and School Attendance

child labourers who are

attending school

children attending

school who are involved

in child labour

Male 92.2 12.2

Female 87.5 7.2

Total 90.4 9.7

Corozal 87.3 16.0

Orange Walk 67.6 5.9

Belize (Excluding Belize City South Side)

88.8 4.4

Belize City South Side 100.0 4.1

Belize District 93.4 4.3

Cayo 96.7 9.5

Stann Creek 93.7 13.2

Toledo 94.7 16.5

Urban 96.5 4.1

Rural 89.2 13.5

Table 18: Child discipline

Percentage of children age 2-14 years who experienced

Any violent discipline method

Corozal 66.1

Orange Walk 59.7

Belize (Excluding Belize City South Side) 75.7

Belize City South Side 76.0

Belize District 75.9

Cayo 65.8

Stann Creek 74.8

Toledo 81.4

Total 70.5

Percentage of children attending

first grade who attended preschool in

previous year [1]

Percentage of children of

primary school entry age en-tering infant

Male 30.2 85.3

Female 35.5 85.3

Total 32.9 85.3

Corozal 32.4 83.2



37.7 84.9


Belize Dis-trict 40.0 92.9

Cayo 35.0 86.1


Toledo 26.3 80.0

Urban 39.0 94.5

Rural 28.6 79.0

( ) Figures that are based on 25-49 un-weighted cases;

Primary school completion rate

Transition rate to

secondary school

Male 88.3 89.2

Female 97.1 92.7

Total 92.9 90.9

Percentage of women age 15-

49 years

With com-prehensive knowledge

Express accept-ing attitudes on all four indicators

Male 31.5 19.2

Female 32.5 13.7

Total 44.5 19.3

Corozal 69.6 21.8


Belize (Exclud-ing Belize City South Side)

66.0 21.2



Cayo 33.0 18.2


Toledo 31.3 12.1

15-24 yrs 42.9 13.3

25-29 yrs. 45.7 19.1

30-39 yrs. 46.5 24.5

40-49 yrs. 44.2 24.0

Table 22: Orphan Children

Percent-age of

children whose mother

and father have died (orphans)

Percentage of children of whom

both parents are alive

and child is living with

at least one parent

(non-or-phans)

Percent-age of

children who are non-or-phans

and are attending school [2]

Orphans to

non-or-phans school atten-dance ratio

Male 0.3 88.2 96.0 1.04

Female 0.4 87.1 94.0 0.85

Urban 0.6 86.3 98.6 1.01

Rural 0.2 88.5 92.7 0.71

Total 0.4 87.6 95.0 0.92

FaMily liFE

Percentage of women age 15-24 who are very or somewhat satisfied with selected domains:

Friend-ships

SchoolCur-rent job

Health

liv-ing

envi-ron-ment

Treat-ment

by oth-ers

The way they look

Cur-rent in-

come

15-19 95.1 92.4 94.9 87.5 95.0 90.7 90.3 96.7 81.0

20-24 94.9 90.0 90.2 86.5 92.4 90.7 91.0 96.0 83.5

Corozal 93.9 89.7 98.4 91.8 94.3 95.5 91.3 96.8 89.5

Orange Walk

95.9 92.6 98.8 87.1 95.2 93.9 94.2 93.3 88.4

Belize (Ex-clud-ing Belize City South Side)

92.9 88.1 97.6 81.4 92.0 87.5 88.4 95.2 76.3

Belize City South Side

92.2 85.9 89.0 84.2 91.8 82.6 85.1 97.4 81.2

Belize District

92.6 87.1 93.5 82.7 91.9 85.2 86.9 96.2 78.4

Cayo 98.5 94.5 89.2 92.8 94.3 92.7 93.0 97.8 86.9

Stann Creek

93.3 91.3 93.1 88.2 94.4 87.8 86.0 97.1 74.4

Tole-do

96.3 97.0 100.0 80.9 95.2 94.8 94.4 97.7 79.9

Urban 94.6 90.0 93.9 87.3 93.4 88.3 90.1 97.0 82.8

Rural 95.4 92.4 94.1 86.1 94.2 92.8 91.1 95.8 82.4

Total 95.0 91.3 94.0 86.8 93.8 90.7 90.6 96.4 82.6

CONTACT INFORMATION

UNiCEF BelizeOne Coney Drive, Gordon House, 3rd Floor,

P.O. Box 2672, Belize City, BelizeTel.: (501) 223-3864 / 3609 / 7294

Fax: (501) 223-3891 • Mobile: (501) 610-0322www.unicef.org/belize • dbzchild.org

( ) Figures that are based on 25-49 un-weighted cases

Percentage of women with life

satisfaction

im-proved during the last

one year

Will get better after one year

Both [1]

15-19 73.8 69.7 86.8 64.420-24 73.6 70.4 89.2 66.9Corozal 76.6 72.8 89.4 67.7Orange Walk 80.2 73.1 88.0 66.9

Belize (Ex-cluding Belize City South Side)

69.9 63.7 83.9 58.3


60.6 71.5 91.3 69.0

Belize District 65.6 67.3 87.3 63.2

Cayo 76.6 69.1 88.5 65.7

Stann Creek 66.8 61.5 86.9 56.2

Toledo 84.5 80.2 87.5 76.8Urban 70.2 68.4 90.9 64.7Rural 76.7 71.5 85.3 66.3Total 73.7 70.0 87.9 65.5

Percentage of children age 2-9 years with

at least one reported impairment

Urban 28.3Rural 41.5Total 36.4Corozal 37.8Orange Walk 29.3




Cayo 59.3

Stann Creek 33.1

Toledo 29.1

2-4 yrs. 37.5

5-6 yrs. 34.2

7-9 yrs. 36.9

Table 24: disability

The Multiple indicator Cluster Survey (MiCS) is an international household survey programme developed by uniCeF.

MICS collects accurate, internationally comparable estimates of key indicators that are used to assess the situation of children and women in the areas of health, education, child protection and HIV/AIDS.

MICS also monitors progress towards goals and global commitments aimed at promoting the welfare of children.

ACROnyMS

aNC antenatal CareECE Early Childhood EducationiMR infant Mortality RateM MonthsMMR Measles, Mumps and RubellaMOD ModerateORT Oral Rehydration TreatmentSEV SevereTBa Traditional Birth attendantU5MR Under-5 Mortality Rate

deFiniTiOnS

iMR: Children who died before age 1U5MR: Children who died before age 5Stunting: Too short for ageWasting: Too thin for height (acute

malnutrition)BCG : against tuberculosisimproved water: Piped, wells, spring, rain,

or bottledaNC (prevalence): aNC from any skilled

health personnel

Age Grouping Male Female Total

0-4 11.2 10.8 11.05-9 11.8 11.3 11.6

10-14 11.7 12.2 12.00-17 41.2 40.9 41.018+ 58.5 58.9 58.7

Table1: Household Age

Table 5: low Birth Weight

Table 6: immunization

Table 10: Antenatal Care

Table 11: Assisted delivery

Table 7: diarrhoea & ORT

Table 8: Hand Washing

Table 4: exclusive BreastfeedingTable2: Child Mortality

Table .2: Child mortality infant and under-five mortality rates, based on WeST model, Belize, 2011

infant

Mortality Rate [1]

Under-five Mor-tality Rate [2]

SexMale 16 18

Female 14 16

areaUrban (17) (19)

Rural 13 15

Wealth index

quintiles

Poorest/Sec-ond/Middle

16 19

Fourth/Rich-est

(11) (12)

Total 14 17

Belize District 5.3 0.4 10.7 4.0 3.8 1.9 11.0

Cayo 5.3 1.6 18.6 4.1 2.8 1.6 6.0

Stann Creek 9.5 1.6 17.5 3.5 4.9 1.2 4.4

Toledo 7.4 2.0 41.6 16.1 3.3 0.9 12.3

0-5 yrs 7.5 2.7 13.6 6.9 5.7 4.5 12.6

Table 3: Childhood Malnutrition

under-weight Stunting Wasting Over-

weight

Mod Sev Mod Sev Mod Sev

Male 5.7 0.6 18.6 5.7 3.2 0.9 8.6

Female 6.6 2.0 20.0 5.2 3.4 1.5 7.1

Urban 5.4 0.7 15.7 2.8 2.8 1.2 9.8

Rural 6.6 1.6 21.4 7.0 3.6 1.2 6.7

Corozal 7.0 1.6 19.7 5.0 3.1 0.3 5.4

Orange Walk 4.7 1.0 17.2 3.1 2.4 0.7 7.3

Belize (Ex-cluding Belize City South Side)

5.0 0.0 13.9 6.9 4.2 2.6 14.1


5.6 0.8 8.1 1.7 3.4 1.3 8.5

0-5 MOnTHS

Male 10.5

Female 21.0

Total 14.7

Urban 10.9

Rural 17.3

Below 2500 grams

Weighted at birth

Corozal 13.5 98.2



12.9 87.5



Cayo 10.4 98.3


Toledo 10.6 87.8

BCG MMR All

Male 99 88.7 58.6

Female 97.0 90.8 66.8

Total 98.0 89.9 59.2

Urban 98.9 89.4 61.7

Rural 97.5 89.8 63.5

% of children age 0-59 months Had diarrhoea in last two weeks

Male 9.2Female 6.5Corozal 9.2Orange Walk 3.4



Belize District 4.7Cayo 13.6Stann Creek 8.2Toledo 7.5Urban 6.4

Rural 8.8

Water and soap available

Corozal 93.0

Orange Walk 98.5




Cayo 98.1

Stann Creek 95.3

Toledo 73.2

SKilled PeRSOnnel <l 4+

Urban 97.3 87.4

Rural 95.5 80.5

Total 96.2 83.1

Any skilled

personnel

delivered in health facility [1]

Percent delivered by C-sec-

tion

Corozal 94.6 98.2 30.2

Orange Walk 99.3 91.6 17.3


97.9 95.5 27.1

Belize City South Side 97.5 97.5 35.4

Belize District 97.7 96.5 31.3

Cayo 96.6 94.7 39.6

Stann Creek 97.8 96.8 19.4

Toledo 87.8 80.7 13.4

age 36-59 months currently attending early childhood education

Male 29.5

Female 33.9

Total 31.7

Corozal 19.1

Orange Walk 16.3




Cayo 24.7

Stann Creek 45.0

Toledo 12.8

Urban 40.4

Rural 26.4

adult household members engaged in four or more activities

Father engaged in one or more activities

Male 88.3 55.0

Female 83.0 45.2

Total 85.6 50.0

Corozal 84.0 55.4



80.6 55.5



Cayo 91.2 56.3


Toledo 83.6 51.3

Urban 88.5 43.6

Rural 83.9 54.0

Table 13: Support for learning

Table 14: Children’s learning Materials

Table 12: early Childhood education

Table 9: Water and Sanitation

improved water and sanitation

Corozal 82.4

Orange Walk 92.1




Cayo 85.9

Stann Creek 86.0

Toledo 80.9

3 or more children’s

books

Two or more

types of playthings

Male 38.8 57.4

Female 40.5 57.3

Total 39.6 57.3

Corozal 27.7 63.4


Belize (Excluding Be-lize City South Side) 53.3 60.1



Cayo 44.6 59.0


Toledo 22.2 37.7

Urban 49.9 54.1

Rural 33.3 59.4

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