The 2003 Mongolian Reproductive Health Survey (RHS) has a nationally
representative sample of 8399 households, in which 9314 women of reproductive
age 15-49 years and a sub-sample of 4212 husbands were interviewed. Fieldwork
was conducted from September to December 2003. The RHS was carried out by
the National Statistical Office (NSO) of Mongolia, with funding from the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Technical assistance was provided by the
UNFPA Country Technical Services Team in Bangkok.
The main purpose of the RHS was to provide policy makers, programme
managers, and related professionals of concerned departments and agencies in
reproductive health and population with detailed information on fertility, infant
and child mortality, family planning, and reproductive health, induced abortion,
and STD/AIDS. The finding of RHS will help in the monitoring and evaluation
of the implementation of the National Reproductive Health Program that is the
responsibility of the Ministry of Health (MoH) with support from UNFPA.
The information in this report is presented at the national level, and broken
down by population groups defined by urban-rural residence, region and level
of education, among others. A further objective was to strengthen the capacity
of NSO to carry out large-scale, nationally representative and internationally
comparable surveys. Through a dissemination workshop and findings from the
RHS report that has been distributed and circulated, the concerned programme
planners, health officials, agencies and researchers will use this information
and indicators for informed policy-making, strategy development, program
implementation and evaluation, and further research.