Occasional Papers No:15
İÇİNDEKİLERFOREWORD INTRODUCTIONI ADMINISTRATION 1. Introduction 2. Timing 3. Time-table 4. Legal framework 5. Co-ordinating committee 6. Technical staff 7. Administrative and accounting staff 8. Assessment of administrative and accounting needs in a survey 9. Printing 10. Office accommodation 11. Transport and communication 12. Insurance of employees II FINANCE III RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING OF FIELD STAFF A RECRUITMENT 1. Introduction 2. Adequacy of response 3. Assessment of candidates 4. Recruitment of surplus trainees B TRAINING 1. Introduction 2. General discussion 3. Facilities and equipment 4. Length of training 5. Formal lectures 6. Role-playing 7. Manuals 8. Advantages of female trainers 9. Field practice and cassette recordings 10. Selection of households for field practice 11. Assessment of trainees IV QUESTIONNAIRE AND RELATED MATTERS A PRE-TEST 1. Introduction 2. General discussion 3. Timing 4. Recruitment of enumerators 5. Sampling arrangements 6. Concluding remarks B TRANSLATION OF QUESTIONS 1. Introduction 2. Fijian translation 3. Hindustani translation C THE HOUSEHOLD SCHEDULE 1. The respondent for the household schedule 2. Administering the household schedule D THE MAIN QUESTIONNAIRE AND INTERVIEW 1. Introduction 2. Eligibility 3. Obtaining privacy 4. Length of interview 5. Embarrassment 6. Incomprehension of questions 7. Interviewer expectations and respondent incomprehension 8. Further aspects of interviewer performance and defects in question design 9. Problems of layout and written instructions on questionnaire 10. Problems of establishing dates 11. Detection of live births in section on miscarriages 12. Recording of live births in correct order 13. Questions designed to detect omissions from previous answers V IMPLEMENTATION OF SAMPLE DESIGN 1. Introduction 2. Mapping 3. Recruitment of listers 4. Training of listers 5. Timing of listing operation 6. Conduct and problems of listing 7. Concluding comments on listing 8. Selection of households in second stage sample VI ORGANIZATION OF FIELD WORK 1. The model 2. Adapting the model to reality 3. Preparation of written deployment plan 4. Length of field work 5. Pattern of work 6. Locating and contacting households 7. Establishing identity and cooperation 8. Travel and subsistence arrangements 9. Duties and performance of team supervisors 10. Role of mobile supervisors 11. Technical supervision 12. Communication and supplies 13. Field documentation 14. Field checks on quality of enumerators' work 15. Use of cassette recorders 16. Personal problems VII FIELD CHECKING AND OFFICE EDITING OF QUESTIONNAIRES 1. Introduction 2. Scrutiny of questionnaires in the field 3. Recruitment and training of editing team 4. General conduct of editing 5. Analysis of errors corrected at headquarters 6. Analysis of errors corrected by re-interviews 7. An assessment of office editing VIII DOCUMENTATION AND CODING OF QUESTIONNAIRES 1. Introduction 2. Filing and storage of questionnaires 3. Documentation of field work results 4. Coding and transcription of questionnaires LIST OF APPENDICES NOTLARM. A. SAHIB, N.B. NAVUNISARAVI, R. CHANDRA and J. G. CLELEND/ The Fiji Fertility Survey: A Critical Commentary |
