The three month fundraising and communication program reached out to at least 2 million people in Malaysia with information on children and AIDS while raising RM 150,000 in support of UNICEF's Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS campaign in Malaysia.
The result is one of the world's largest sources of statistical information on children and women, which can be disaggregated by various geographic, social and demographic characteristics.
Developed by UNICEF in the 1990s to help countries produce statistically sound, internationally comparable data across a range of indicators – including health, education, child protection and HIV/AIDS – MICS has come to generate one of the world's largest sources of statistical information on children and women.
Teams enter and view information on children and families in a single, shared electronic record.
The collecting of information on children is an emotional issue that often attracts political attention.
Congress passed the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to restrict the ways that commercial Web sites, like Disney's, collect information on children under 13.
Mics is now the largest source of statistical information on children and we have an enormous amount of data at our fingertips.
Coppa requires sites that collect personal information on children to obtain written parental permission if the child is under the age of 13.
Frantic messages appeared on social media sites throughout the day, with some reposting messages pleading for information on children at the mall's Gympanzee play area.
In an effort to fill these crucial data gaps, we developed the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (Mics) methodology that enabled governments to collect information on children where regular monitoring information systems often fell short.
The case unsealed yesterday also charged Mr. Hawkins with bribing a City Department of Health employee to obtain confidential information on children suffering from lead poisoning in an effort to coax the children's parents into filing lawsuits against their landlords.
