Survey Findings: 94% of People Happy with Their Lives in Qatar

Doha, October 23 (QNA) - The Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA) released ON Tuesday the preliminary findings of the Qatar Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) that was carried out in 2012 in collaboration with the Supreme Council of Health. The Survey's fieldwork was carried out between May and June, 2012. MICS is an international household survey program developed by UNICEF. The Qatar MICS, which was conducted as part of the fourth global round of MICS surveys (MICS4), provides up-to-date information on the situation of children, women, and men and measures key indicators that allow countries to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other internationally agreed upon commitments. According to its preliminary findings, overall, 94 percent of people age 15- 49 years are somewhat or very happy with their lives. Comparing the findings for men and women, a somewhat higher percentage of women express happiness. Overall satisfaction with family life, friendships, school, current job, health, living environment, treatment by others, and the way they look is very high for men and women. Ninety-one percent of women age 15-49 years with a live birth in the two years preceding the survey received antenatal care (ANC) at least once by skilled personnel, the findings showed. "Eighty-five percent received ANC at least 4 times by any provider. Ninety-six percent of Qatari women received ANC at least once. Ninety-two percent received ANC at least 4 times." "One hundred percent of all women were attended by a doctor, nurse, midwife or auxiliary midwife at delivery and 99 percent delivered in a health facility." (MORE) Survey Findings: 94% of People Happy with Their Lives in Qatar Doha, October 23 (QNA) - The Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA) released ON Tuesday the preliminary findings of the Qatar Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) that was carried out in 2012 in collaboration with the Supreme Council of Health. The Survey's fieldwork was carried out between May and June, 2012. MICS is an international household survey program developed by UNICEF. The Qatar MICS, which was conducted as part of the fourth global round of MICS surveys (MICS4), provides up-to-date information on the situation of children, women, and men and measures key indicators that allow countries to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other internationally agreed upon commitments. According to its preliminary findings, overall, 94 percent of people age 15- 49 years are somewhat or very happy with their lives. Comparing the findings for men and women, a somewhat higher percentage of women express happiness. Overall satisfaction with family life, friendships, school, current job, health, living environment, treatment by others, and the way they look is very high for men and women. Ninety-one percent of women age 15-49 years with a live birth in the two years preceding the survey received antenatal care (ANC) at least once by skilled personnel, the findings showed. "Eighty-five percent received ANC at least 4 times by any provider. Ninety-six percent of Qatari women received ANC at least once. Ninety-two percent received ANC at least 4 times." "One hundred percent of all women were attended by a doctor, nurse, midwife or auxiliary midwife at delivery and 99 percent delivered in a health facility." Young children's development in four key domains was assessed in the survey: literacy-numeracy, physical (motor skills, freedom of recurrent illness), social-emotional and learning (ability to follow simple instructions, ability to occupy herself/himself independently). The Early Child Development Index (ECDI) is the percentage of children who are developmentally on track in at least three of these four domains. In Qatar the ECDI score is 84. School attendance is high in Qatar. Ninety-seven percent of children of primary school age are attending primary school and 88 percent of children of secondary school age are attending secondary school. Girls and boys are attending primary school to the same extent; the Gender Parity Index (GPI) is 1.00. However, in secondary school the GPI drops to 0.99, indicating that a few less girls than boys attend secondary school. Many children of ages five and six are attending any form of school. Around 95 percent of 6 year olds are attending school; age 6 is the official school starting age in Qatar. School attendance remains at this level or higher for children of age 7-10 and starts to decrease for children of age 17 years. Fifteen to seventeen years is the official age range for upper-secondary school. Gender differentials are generally small. QSA noted that this report presents selected results on some of the key topics covered in the survey and on a subset of indicators. The results in this report are preliminary and are subject to change, although major changes are not expected. A full report is scheduled for publication in early 2013. The preliminary report is for all households. The full report will show many estimates for Qatari and non-Qatari households. (END)