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Adapting / Customizing Questionnaires

Adapting / Customizing Questionnaires. Customization. No single model questionnaire can represent all human experience around the globe Customization will have to be made However, lesson learned: Adapting too freely may cause production of low quality, incomparable data. Customize,.

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Adapting / Customizing Questionnaires

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  1. Adapting / Customizing Questionnaires

  2. Customization • No single model questionnaire can represent all human experience around the globe • Customization will have to be made • However, lesson learned: Adapting too freely may cause production of low quality, incomparable data

  3. Customize, • But retain international comparability in data you collect • Only to reflect country-specific categories, phenomena

  4. Adapting / Customizing Questionnaires • Decide on your indicators • Identify modules which collect necessary data on numerators and denominators of your indicators • Make sure you collect information on all indicators appropriately and that a decision to take out one module does not affect collection of data on another indicator

  5. Adapting / Customizing Questionnaires • Retain all core modules if possible • Assess whether you are affected by issues in additional modules and decide to include/exclude them • Optional modules – Assess if it is an issue, if there is interest

  6. Adapting / Customizing Questionnaires • Assess the length of questionnaires – do not overdo it • Consider the flow, the rhythm of the interview, do not produce a “form” • Remember that the inclusion/exclusion of one module might influence another module, or the rhythm of the interview

  7. Some Rules • Retain question numbers • Do not assign new numbers to questions already in model questionnaire • If new questions are included, assign them new numbers – if necessary, use A, B, C etc, such as HA15A, HA15B to be inserted between HA15 and HA16 • Retain Latin characters

  8. Some Rules • Understand what response categories are attempting to capture • Country-specific response categories may be already there, under a different name • A new category should not take up the code (number or letter) of those in the model questionnaires

  9. Some Rules • Be cautious about changing the ordering of modules • If not absolutely necessary, do not change ordering of modules or questions • Do not change the definition of the eligible group, e.g. age group • Change can only be to capture a wider group, e.g. asking questions about age group 2-14 rather than 2-9

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