Only 28 thousand out of 50 thousand children in Antique aged 12-15 years were attending school.  This was one of the facts on the state of women and children in Antique revealed by the 2007 Sub-Regional Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (2007 SR-MICS) conducted by the National Statistics Office last year with a financial support from the UNICEF. 

Children of elementary school age, on the other hand, had a net attendance ratio of 1:4 wherein 1 in every 4 children was not in school.  Antique’s early childhood education for five years old children registered an impressive 70 percent attendance rate. 

Of 124,000 children aged 5-14 years in Antique, 7.9 percent or 10,000 were found to be engaged in child labour.  7.8 percent of children from this age bracket who were attending school were, at the same time, also engaged in child labour. 

The survey also revealed that many mothers were not following the recommended exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of the child’s life.  8 percent or 1,144 of these infants were not breastfed. Only 25 percent of infants aged 0-3 months were breastfed and lesser for 0-5 months old infants with 18 percent of them.  

73.5 percent of all children aged 12-23 months had received BCG-Measles vaccinations.  70 percent of children aged 2-3 years were reported to have received antihelminthics or deworming medicines in the past six months before the survey.  47 percent of mothers who gave birth in the last 12 months and their children were protected against tetanus. 

In antenatal care, 97.5 percent of 24,000 women aged 15-49 in Antique who gave birth in the two years preceding the survey had pre-natal check-up.  85. 9 percent of them received it from skilled personnel (doctor, nurse, midwife). 

In water and sanitation, 9.6 percent or 53,000 household population in Antique do not have access to improved sources of drinking water and 11 percent or 60,000 household population in Antique do not have access to sanitary means of excreta disposal. 

Although 11 percent of the 130,000 women aged 15-49 do not know of any children’s right, 59.4 percent or 77,000 women are able to name at least three rights.  It also turned out that the least-known children’s right to them were the right to be able to express the child’s view (15 percent) and the right to be defended and given assistance by the government (3 percent). 

Please visit the NSO Antique website http://nsoantique.100free.com  for more information.

	1. 26-06-2008 13:35
	3 in every 7 Antiqueño Childen of Second This is sad. About forty-three percent of our youth are not in high school. Kon wara ti husto nga edukasyon ti ano bay anang paraabuton? Ano bay nga sari kang pangabuhi sa urihi anang madangatan? One of the reasons probably why this happens is the wisdom behind this African proverb:It takes the whole village to raise a child. Kinahanglan ang pagbulig, impluwensiya, kag pagsuporta kang bilog nga katilingban para nga mapadayon dyang mga bata sa andang pag-eskwela. Masubo kon sangka tawo lang ang gahimakas pagpaeskwela kang pamatan-on hay dyan pa ang malain nga mga barkada nga makaganyat gid kang mga bata sa pagtinonto. Ang mga ginikanan dapat gid magbantay kag magtudlo kang andang kabataan sa paggamit kang cellphone nga amo pa dya ang mangin instrumento kang bata sa pagtinonto para maguba anang pag-eskwela sa bagay nga gamiton raad sa husto nga paagi. Registered Report

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