The United Nations Children’s Fund

The Agency of Statistics of the Republic of THE STATE OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN United Nations Population Fund IN KAZAKHSTAN

The results of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, which was conducted by the Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2010-2011 in coopera- tion with the Information and Computer Centre of the Agency of Statistics with technical and financial support of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as well as with financial support of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)

To download the Kazakhstan MICS4 full report and database or other reports, please go to: www.childinfo.org/mics4_surveys.html or go to www.stat.kz CHILDREN UNDER 5 WHO ARE TOO SHORT FOR THEIR AgE

Total – 13% Almost 1 out of 8 children in Kazakhstan is too short for their age (stunted) 19.7%

10.6%

North Kazakhstan Oblast 8.9% 12.7% 8.1% Akmola Oblast 9.8% Astana Oblast Kostanai Oblast 36.2% 16.6%

West Kazakhstan 4.8% Oblast Oblast 18.4% East Kazakhstan Oblast Oblast Oblast

7.1% 10.8% 16.2% 10.2% Oblast Oblast 12.1% Zhambyl Oblast Almaty Mangistau Oblast

South Kazakhstan Oblast 17.1%

Primary and secondary school 8% of children under five are short net attendance ratio (adjusted) for their age (moderately stunted) 99% 96% 5% are too short for their age (severely stunted) Primary Secondary school NAR school NAR

HOUSEHOLDS THAT HAvE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN children aged children aged UrBAN rUrAL 0-23 months 24-59 months 61% 35% 30% 60% 3 or more 3 or more 3 or more 3 or more 39% 14% 16% 33% 10 or more 10 or more 10 or more 10 or more books for books for books for books for children children children children Children’s Right to Health and Survival

INFANT MORTALITy* (per 1,000 live births)

BY EDUCATION LEvEL OF MOTHERS BY WEALTH QUINTILES

16 30 24 34 Among mothers Among mothers Among Among the with higher with secondary the richest poorest education education quintile quintile

Statement: Mothers with secondary education are (2X ) twice as likely to have a child die before they turn 1 year as compared to mothers with higher education level.

UNDER FIvE CHILD MORTALITy* Breastfeeding (per 1,000 live births) 27 40 Among the Among the richest quintile poorest quintile

Statement: The poorest families are worst off when it comes to 32% of children under their child surviving to the age of 5 as compared to the richest 6 months are exclusively families. breastfed * rates refer to 2006.

Low birth weight infants 9.2%

of 5 infants% are born with low birth weight in 4.4% Kazakhstan Babies born in the North Kazakhstan Oblast (9%) are more than two-fold as likely to be born underweight (less than 2,500 gm) than babies born in the South Kazakhstan Oblast (4%) CHILDREN’S RIgHT TO EDUCATION

Early child development index in Kazakhstan is 86% ATTEND ORgANISED EARLy CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROgRAMMES 38% 36% Female Male 37% of children aged 3-4 years attend organised early childhood education programmes

ATTEND ORgANISED EARLy CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROgRAMMES 42.9% 56.8%

North Kazakhstan Oblast 59% 69.4% 37.9% Akmola Oblast Pavlodar Astana Oblast 59.3% Kostanai Oblast 39.5% 53.8% West Kazakhstan 56.9% Oblast

Atyrau East Kazakhstan 50.4% Aktobe Oblast Oblast Karaganda Oblast Oblast

36.4% 15.1% 33.2%

Kyzylorda 18.1% Almaty Oblast Oblast 17.4% Zhambyl Oblast Almaty Mangistau Oblast South Kazakhstan 47.6% Oblast

29% 45% in rural in urban areas areas

Attendance to early childhood education programmmes by wealth quintiles (3-4 years old) 19% 29% 34% 52% 61%

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