The delegation of Turkmenistan, consisting of the Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of Statistics of Turkmenistan G.Annaniyazova and the Deputy Head of the Department of Population Statistics B.Annamukhammedova, took part in the Expert Meeting on  Statistics on Children, organized by the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Annual session of UNICEFs TransMonEE network of National Statistical Services, which was held in Geneva (Switzerland) on March 4-6, 2024.

During the meeting, issues of implementation of the Guidelines on Statistics on Children and the use of all available data sources, including the results of population censuses and relevant household surveys, were discussed. Speakers on the agenda exchanged views on the experience of innovative approaches to collecting data on children.

Reports from individual countries on the formation of TransMonEE, the largest database for monitoring the situation of children and compliance with children's rights for the countries of Europe and Central Asia, were also heard, and issues related to the sources of formation of this database were discussed.

The results of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) are one of the sources of TransMonEE. Currently, the seventh round of MICS is being conducted in Turkmenistan by TurkmenStat. Of the five survey questionnaires, two questionnaires are aimed at obtaining data on children aged 0-17 years, covering issues of education, health, child abuse and others.