Afghanistan Mortality Survey 2010 - Measure DHS

72 percent of the rural population of the country. In comparison, the AMS 2010 covered 84 percent of therural population.Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2003. The MICS 2003 is the first survey to beconducted in the country since decades of conflict and provides baseline data on key demographic andhealth indicators (CSO and UNICEF, 2004). The sampling frame for the 2003 MICS was derived fromtwo sources: the 1979 Population Census conducted by CSO; and the National Immunization Day (NID)coverage data from the MoPH for Nuristan and the major cities due to the lack of a detailed breakdown ofthe population. The survey covered all 32 provinces in existence at that time in the country, and providesestimates of key indicators at the national, urban, rural and provincial levels. The Kuchi population is notcovered in the sample as well as 10 percent of villages throughout the country for which censusdocuments were missing. The survey sampled 765 PSUs, selected 21,038 households, and completed20,806 households. Nevertheless, for various reasons, key findings from the MICS 2003 were consideredflawed. A reanalysis of the data was carried out by CSO and UNICEF and modeled estimates of keyindicators from the adjusted MICS 2003 data as well as from the 1997 and 2000 MICS 5 were published inthe Best Estimates of Social Indicators for Children 1990-2005 (UNICEF, 2006).Reproductive Age Mortality Survey (RAMOS) in Four Districts (2002). Bartlett and otherscarried out a study of women age 15–49 years who died between March 21, 1999, and March 21, 2002, insampled villages in four selected districts in four provinces in Afghanistan (Bartlett et al., 2005). Thesedistricts were: Kabul city, Kabul province; Alisheng district, Laghman province; Maywand district,Kandahar province; and Ragh district, Badakshan province, with the selected sample representing lessthan 4 percent of the population of the country at that time. The districts were not selected randomly butwere purposively selected to serve as proxies for urban, semirural, rural and very rural parts of thecountry, respectively. All 13,848 households in randomly selected villages in these four districts weresurveyed and 294 deaths among women of reproductive age were investigated through verbal autopsyinterviews of family members. Based on their findings of maternal deaths in these districts, the authorsextrapolated the data to provide a national estimate of maternal mortality for the country.5 The 1997 MICS executed by the Centro Internacional de Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET) was never published(UNICEF, 2006). The 2000 MICS covered only the rural east of the country (UNICEF, 2006).Introduction | 17