Mobile Surveyor A Windows PDA/Mobile based survey Software for easy, fast and error free data collection

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Advantages Capturing of Data/Information directly from the field in electronic form. (No separate coding and data entry is required) Reduce the total survey and data collection time ( ready for analysis ) to one- third ( by eliminating the S urvey I nformation C oding and D ata E ntry T ime required for traditional manual method ). Elimination of Stationery and Data Entry Cost. Collected data is converted to formats to be readily used by SPSS application. Facilitate monitoring of every days survey information (collected data) of individual surveyor from a central location. Better quality of survey data by applying skip logic, data validation rules etc. Facility of quick implementation of Modified/Redesigned/New set of Questioner without additional cost of stationery and additional time for printing and distribution of questionnaire. Can handle different sets of questionnaire for different locations e.g. Upazilla in the same round of survey.

Process Flow (Contd.) Prepare Questionnaire at Head office Features Expand the Image Different types of Question Both Bengali and English Validation Adding Instruction for Data Collector Adding Instruction for Data Collector Skip Logic Options for taking Other Answer SPSS Variable Click on Following Links 1 by 1 Click here for Next Direct to PDA Section

Question Types Click Here

Language Click Here

Validation Click Here

Comment / Instruction for Data Collector Click Here

Skip Logic Click Here

Process Flow (Contd.) Upload prepared Questionnaire to Web Server Features Round wise Question Upload New Section can be included even after uploading the questionnaire once Web service based data Transfer that enables easy access to the Updated Questionnaire

Process Flow (Contd.) Download Questionnaire from Web to Laptop at Field Level

Process Flow (Contd.) Download Questionnaire from Laptop to PDA for Data Collector Features Round wise Question Upload User Wise Question Upload Location wise Question Upload Only one Questionnaire can be uploaded to PDA at a given time

PDA Software detail Log In Household Identification 1 2 Section Selection 3 Is Repetitive ? yes no Add Members Answer Questions Finish Member Add Another? yes no Finish Section Answer Questions Finish Household

1. Log In List of Existing Household To Create a new Household Survey Name Round Name Log in Screen After Successful Log in Monitoring Officer CLICK HERE

2. Household Identification Household Code Date of Visit GPS Information Free Text field for writing comment Location Information CLICK HERE

3. Section Selection List of Sections for selected household. Q&A Language Selection CLICK HERE

Questions Question Navigation Bar Other Answer Field Multiple Choice Single Answer Multiple Choice Multi AnswerNumerical Answer Matrix one answer per row Text answer Date Time answer Question Types Missing Answer Instruction Info View Bengali Version Click here for Next

Question Types (Bengali) Multiple Choice Single Answer Matrix one answer per row Numerical Answer Date Time answer Text answerMultiple Choice Multi Answer

Process Flow (Contd.) Upload Collected answers from PDA to Laptop

Process Flow (Contd.) Features Household wise Answer Upload Rigorous Data Validation process to ensure– No Data Duplication No Data Loss Data Integrity Incremental Data Uploading Process Upload answers Data from Laptop to Web

Process Flow (Contd.) Download answers from web to Head office Features Household wise Answer Download Rigorous Data Validation process to ensure– No Data Duplication No Data Loss Data Integrity Incremental Data Downloading Process

Process Flow (Contd.) Transfer Data to SPSS Software for analysis Features SPSS Data Transfer in three steps. Section wise Data Transfer to SPSS. Not Applicable, Missing Answers and Other Answers are transferred to SPSS Combination of Different Section for viewing Data at a glance