The presentation will describe the key elements of doing field work: How do you organize your teams? What task does each person do? How do you recruit and train the teams? How do you supervise them? The emphasis will be on how to maintain very high levels of quality control and the logistic, managerial and strategic issues implications
Tables on management and logistics, questionnaire development, sampling, staffing and training, data management, field work, data analysis and documentation
The integration of data entry and field work, and the use of extensive data quality checks in the data entry program have been important parts of the LSMS' quality control procedures. This session will explain them, and their implications for selecting data entry software and for data cleaning. The session will also cover key issues in data cleaning taking into account the analyst's perspective.
This paper seeks to provide a brief theoretical introduction followed by practical advice on how to construct a consumption aggregate from household survey data.
The Social Fund central function is to finance infrastructure improvements in schools, health centers, water and sanitation facilities at the request of local communities.
This document provides policymakers, managers, and planning and evaluation staff with ideas about participatory processes and indicators that can be used to involve community members and others in program evaluation. Drawing upon experience gained during the past fifteen years in more than twenty countries, the volume is structured around a framework of key indicators
that can be measured to determine progress toward the objectives of sustainability, effective use, and replicability in water and sanitation programs. The methodology is relevant to other
sectors, as well.
