Child rights mainstreaming in the identification phase necessitates sound analysis based on the collection of both quantitative and qualitative data from a range of both primary and secondary sources. The extent of these data sources, the scope of data collection and analysis will depend on the time and resources available.

Primary sources can include:

• Household surveys examining time use, consumption patterns, revenues, resource allocations and coping strategies from the perspectives of girls, boys, women and men
  


• Census data particularly on demographics, household revenues and family composition
  


• Existing administrative data (national statistics on education, health, malnutrition, migration, child institutionalisation, child homelessness, child-oriented cash transfers, etc)
  

Secondary sources can include:

• UNICEF and Save the Children Country Situation Analyses
  


• UNICEF Global Child Poverty Study (2008-2010)
  


• Child well-being data bases by country (Transmonee, Child Info, CRIN, UNDP Human Development Index)
  


• MDG Progress Reports
  


• State Party and Alternative Reports to UN Committee on Rights of Child as well as Concluding Observations from Committee
  


• National human rights machinery, children’s ombudsman in-country may have data on child