Third Group Training Course in Application of Information and Communications Technology to Production and Dissemination of Official Statistics (06 th May’07 – 12 Jul’07) (06 th May’07 – 12 Jul’07) Compare Various Types of Interviewing & Data Capturing Methods Compare Various Types of Interviewing & Data Capturing Methods By Group - II Ms. Rashmi Sharma, India Mst. Maksuda Shilpi, Bangladesh Mst. Maksuda Shilpi, Bangladesh Ms. Aminath Shirmeen, Maldives Ms. Aminath Shirmeen, Maldives Mr. Amadou Tidiane Diallo, Senegal Mr. Amadou Tidiane Diallo, Senegal

Presentation Overview  Introduction - Amadou  Project Activity Plan - Shiru  Questionnaire- Shiru  Software Used - Rashmi  Software Development - Rashmi  Data Collection - Shilpi  Tabulation - Shilpi  Data Analysis & Conclusions - Amadou  References - Amadou  Data Dissemination Including web – Rashmi  Action Plan - Shiru, Rashmi, Shilpi, Amadou  Q & A on project and A/P- All

Introduction  Target group is TIC participants  Sample concerned with 54 individuals  Sample distribution:21 males and 33 females, drawn from all 5 regions  Response rate is 96 %

Project Activity Plan and the Questionnaire Shiru

Activity Plan  Activity plan Activity plan Activity plan –Meetings –Choosing the Topic –Design questionnaire –Develop Data entry programme –Data Collection and Data Entry –Data cleaning and Analysis –Finalize tables –Dissemination in different format

Meetings  We had total 7 meetings.  We held our meetings in TIC lobby and one meeting during normal project class at SIAP.  We changed our survey topic 3 times.  5 th meeting – We finalized survey topic.  Meetings Meetings

Data Collection  We used 4 methods of data collection: – PAPI – CAPI – CATI – Electronic – method using

Factors considered during questionnaire design  Flow of questions  Multiple answers  Skip questions

Questionnaire  Design Questionnaire in excel format.  Total no. of Questions= 15  No. of Multiple questions= 3  No. of Skip questions= 2  Questionnaire – PAPI and CATI (questionnaire1) (questionnaire1) – Electronic (questionnaire2) (questionnaire2)

Rashmi Software Development

Software Used  CSPro  STATA & SPSS  Microsoft Access  Microsoft Excel  Microsoft Word  Microsoft FrontPage  Xerver

Data Entry Application Data entry app s/w developed in : CSPro, Access, Excel Data file specification –Number of Variables = 37 - Numeric variables =35 –Alphanumeric variables = 2 –Number of record type = 1

Created Date Entry Application  Created Dictionary: All items in CSPro dictionary  Created Identification : Identification, Id, 2  Identify Records and variable, sub items : (Person)  Identify variable label: Exact Question Text  Identify variable name: Q  Identify variable name: Q  Size of variable (according to question)  Type of variable (according to question)  Identify Values (according to question)  Fix number of occurrences (according default) Click here Click here

Data Dictionary

Value Set

CSPro Data Capture Screen

Logic

pop-up responses box CAPI Question

MS Excel  Macro Recording Macro  Data save in ASCII form  Align the data according to CSPro Data Dictionary format

MS ACCESS

Data Integration Concatenation (CSPro) Input Data Output Data ACCESS CAPI CSPro CATI EXCEL CSPro CAPI CSPro PAPI CSPro DATA File

Data Integration  Integration of the different data files format  The integrated file is handed over to all group members

Data Collection and Tabulation Mst. Maksuda Shilpi Mst. Maksuda Shilpi

Methods and Name of Collector 1. PAPI Methods by Shilpi 2. CAPI Methods by Rashmi 3. CATI Methods by Amadou 4. Electronic Methods by Shiru

Methods and Number of Cases Cases by PAPI Methods 2. 8 Cases by Electronic Methods Cases by CAPI Methods Cases by CATI Methods 5. 2 Non-responses in Electronic Methods

Data Integration  Using CSPro data entry application all these files are concatenated.

Tabulation  We made tabulation by CSPro Tabulation Application.  No. of Table=9  No. of Frequency Table=5  No. of Cross Table=4  Demonstration of tabulation application

Table 1: Percentage Distribution of Method Used Method Used Percent PAPI18 CAPI35 CATI32 Electronic15 % Total 100

Table 2: Percentage Distribution of Time to fill Questionnaire Time to fill questionnaire Percent 0 min- 5 min 59 6 min- 11 min min- 17 min 2 18 min- 23 min - >23 min 2 % Total 100

Amadou Amadou

Data Analysis & Conclusions  Analysis is done under STATA, SPSS & Excel  Interpretation of Results  Survey findings

 Tables converted from CSPro into SPSS and Stata  Converted data copied and pasted into Excel and data ploted

 % of respondents completed the questionnaires through CAPI within 5 minutes  % completed the questionnaire by PAPI within the same time interval.

 % (third of CATI proportion) filled in the questionnaires within the first time interval  The proportion goes further down with CATI (9.38 %).

 % (third of CATI proportion) filled in the questionnaire by Electronic within the first time interval  The proportion goes further down with CATI (9.38 %).

 % (third of CATI proportion) filled in the questionnaire by Electronic within the first time interval  The proportion goes further down with CATI (9.38 %).

 8 respondents in 10, whose first language is not English, completed the questionnaire between 5 and 11 minutes  2 in 10, whose first language is English, completed the questionnaire within the same interval

 63.6 % of female respondents completed the questionnaire within 5 minutes  52.4 % of male respondents completed the questionnaire within the same time interval

Descriptive statistics under Stata variableObsMean Std. Dev. MinMax Method used Region Sex Age group Education First language Fill a questionnaire before Time used Method used: Method used: Mean = 2.42; Standard deviation:0.96; Minimum value=1 and Maximum value=4

Regression analysis under STATA SourceSSdfMSNumber of obs54 F( 7, 46)1.66 Model Prob > F Residual R-squared Adj R-squared Total Root MSE About 20 % of the variation of Time used is explained by the model

Survey Findings  CAPI is more effective than PAPI, CATI or in terms of time  Women did better than men in filling in the questionnaire  Non-English speaking respondents did better than English-speaking respondents  Familiarity with IT Tools is higher among Asian respondents than those from other regions  Time to fill in the questionnaire is longer with non-English speaking respondents through CATI

References  1. Demographic and Health Surveys-Phase II (1990), Institute for Resource Development.  2. Designing Surveys, A Guide to Decisions and Procedures (1995), Ronald Czaja and Johny Blair.  3. U.S. Bureau of the Census. (1992) 1990 Census of Population: General Population Characteristics— North Carolina. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (1990 CP-1-35).  4. SIAP HANDOUTS, 2007  5. JICA-TIC Survey 2007 conducted by participants of the Fifth Group Training Course in Modules on Core Official Statistics

Data Dissemination  CD  Web Web  Hard Copy