What you will be able to do
- Design forms and questionnaires that collect what is needed and nothing more
- Plan collection, including sampling basics and supervision
- Protect personal data throughout the process
- Check data quality and correct problems at the source
Who it is for
- M&E and statistics officers
- Survey and field coordinators
- Managers of administrative registers
Prerequisites
- None
Program
What to collect
- From the question to the variables
- Administrative data, surveys and other sources
- Avoiding collection nobody uses
Designing tools
- Clear questions and response options
- Paper and digital forms
- Testing a tool before use
Organising collection
- Sampling basics for non-statisticians
- Training and supervising data collectors
- Personal data protection and consent
Quality
- Validation rules and range checks
- Spot checks and back-checks
- A data quality report
How we work
- Critique and redesign of real forms
- A short field test of a questionnaire among participants
- Quality checks on a training dataset