The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Wednesday that the North Korean government has released wide-ranging data collected from its citizens in 2017 by the state’s Central Bureau of Statistics.

The data was collected using a Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) of 8,500 households. There have been three previous MICS conducted in-country with the last to occur in 2009.

Much of the data produced from these MICS pertains to humanitarian questions consistent with statistics collected by UNICEF and the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) previously.

However, the survey questions in the 2017 MICS are much more varied and detailedcompared