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Formatting Your Survey

Formatting Your Survey. Formatting Your Survey. What should a format look like? For any questionnaire, whether small or big, the important things are: Skip patterns Options & Coding c. Grid d. Interviewer checkpoints. a. Skip patterns.

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Formatting Your Survey

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  1. Formatting Your Survey

  2. Formatting Your Survey What should a format look like? For any questionnaire, whether small or big, the important things are: • Skip patterns • Options & Coding c. Grid d. Interviewer checkpoints

  3. a. Skip patterns • Sometimes, according to the response to a question, the next question does not need to be asked. This is where SKIP comes handy! • Makes it easy for your Surveyor to administer the questionnaire. • Makes it easy for data entry. • Should be • consistent, easy to recognize; use  or • same line as the answer to the response associated with the skip

  4. a. Skip patterns

  5. b. Options & Coding • Options can be single or multiple. You need to indicate the same saying: "CIRCLE ALL THAT APPLY” if this is a multiple option question; else by not mentioning the above specifically, it is assumed to be a single option question. • Coding is necessary to avoid writing too much text in the survey form and subsequent data entry and analysis is easier and clear cut; Include as many numeric codes possible for circling the options. It is more difficult to code later on. • When coding your questions, make sure that all options are included. • – For example, if there is a chance, even small, that people will say “I don’t know”, do include the code “-999” in the question.

  6. b. Options and Coding • For example: Single option

  7. b. Options and Coding • Multiple options • Coding

  8. b. Options and Coding.. Things to Remember • Use CMF’s standardized codes (DK, Refuse, etc.) • Close ended questions must have ALL options coded • Use Others [specify] to capture factors not coded • Use a separate code sheet where necessary – usually for industry codes

  9. c. Grids • For questions that have to be asked repeatedly for multiple members in a household or objects such as each stove/ classroom/multiple loans and savings etc. • Either ask the same questions for multiple members at a time, filing it horizontally OR • Ask all questions on the current sheet/full section relating to the first member id and when you reach the end of the chronology ask the same questions for the next member. The same skip pattern as discussed earlier applies here.

  10. c. Grids In 2.4 the surveyor should check whether the person is a permanent member of the household according to the project criteria and only then proceed to answer the series of questions that should be asked only to permanent members. You should not ask the question again to the respondent, so this is labeled as INTERVIEWER CHECKPOINT (just a reminder for the interviewer):

  11. Grids can also look like this!

  12. Grids.. The right side

  13. d. Interviewer checkpoints • These are instructions to the interviewers. SHOULD NOT ASK RESPONDENT. Mostly to verify information / clarifications, etc. • Distinguish ICs by printing, making bold, underlining the instruction • Eg. question was asked earlier and details follow in another section..

  14. Where to start from: Resources at hand • Rarely do you create a questionnaire from scratch • Using existing surveys addressing similar questions; tested in the local context (some of these are available on the CMF website) • India • Consumption – National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) • Health – National Family Health Survey (NFHS) and Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) • Education – Annual Survey for Education Research (ASER) • Industry codes (National industry classification – NIC codes) • Poverty indicators – Cash-poor Housing Index • Look-up existing survey formats • World Bank LSMS modules: country-specific. • Published datasets/ survey instruments

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