1. COMPUTER-ASSISTED PERSONAL and WEB INTERVIEWING
Survey Solutions
COMPUTER-ASSISTED PERSONAL and WEB INTERVIEWING
Zurab Sajaia

2. Census System Requirements
SMS
DMS
QMS
DCS
GIS
Access control
Activity monitoring
Connectivity monitoring
Software updates
Hardware monitoring
Version control
Data aggregation
Data export
Collected
Metadata
Manual
Automatic
Paradata
Flow control/Q navigation
Error indication
Pictures
Mixed mode
CAPI
CAWI
CATI
Location
Navigation
Geo-fencing
Security
Scalability
Compatibility / expandability

4. EXPORT
SAMPLE
REPORTS
DESIGNER
CHARTS
TESTER
MAPS

5. Real time status of interviews

6. Map of the survey

7. Monitor the survey by checking the GPS location
of where and when the interview took place.

8. Main differences from other systems
Out-of-the-box free solution for survey data collection: data capturing, data management, and survey management. No software on the market provides such a package. All other system focus mostly on data capturing.
Minimum TA; Focus on Capacity Building: Survey Solutions is designed to minimize the TA. Lowest learning curve. Other systems require constant and significant TA. Expert versus User centered approach.
Designed for large surveys: Survey Solutions is specifically designed for LSMS and HBS-types of surveys: Nested Rosters, Cascading and Linked questions, Roster-specific validations. Online collaboration.
Multimode surveys: Survey Solutions supports CAPI, CAWI, and CATI surveys, making it very useful for Censuses and complex surveys.
Data security: Survey Solutions allows storing data on the local servers of NSO thus complying with the local data privacy and anonymity laws. No other software used by the NSOs has such functionality (SurveyCTO can do that for a high fee, but we know of no NSO that is using it – different market (Kenya)).

9. mixed mode – CAPI, CAWI, CATI

10. Paradata: Adaptive Survey Design
Improve data quality by correcting survey process during the field operation.
System records all events with timestamps that happen on a tablet: Data entry, Data correction, Responsibility changes, etc.
Analysis of time per interview, time per question, section.
Changes in productivity over time, for different interviewers, teams
Quality control, monitoring and evaluation

11. Powerful API for customizations
Build own reports and dashboards
Customize interview workflow
Run automated validations using external data
Create dynamic sample as-you-go
Manage web-survey invitations
Anything else…

12. Customization through flexible APIs

13. Powerful module to collect various types of GIS information

14. Support of a wide range of questions

15. Available resources
Web-based survey design tool:
Survey Solutions Tester app on Google Play
Open-for-all demo server:
Download installer :
Cloud server request:
Support site and forum:

16. Survey Pipeline: 1000+ CAPI/CAWI National surveys
in 125 countries; 12,500,000+ FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEWS

17. Survey Scope
Survey types: LSMS, HBS, LFS, Enterprise Survey, EDU, Health
Large Clients: India NSSO; Stats SA; Thailand NSO; FAO; IFAD; AfDB; IADB; OECS; IFS, LSTD, …, BRAC; OPM; Mathematica
Largest surveys: South Africa – 2,600,000 households, 12, enumerators, 500 supervisors, 60K questionnaires per day
Philippines AG Census – 2,500,000 farms
Myanmar – 1,500,000 consumers
Questionnaire: Malawi – 3,000+ questions, 94 rosters
Other large surveys:
Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi LSMS
Nigeria LSMS
WAEMU Household surveys in 12 countries of West Africa
Many others