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Monthly Surveys Data Request
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The monthly survey itself began in August 1998 with a baseline interview on initial conditions of sampled households. These answers trigger further questions or forms which gather more specific information on the use of contracts and informal institutions, for example. Rosters provide an enumeration or list of items to be tracked in subsequent monthly interviews, and the monthly interviews themselves track inputs, outputs, and changing conditions. As the activities of a household may change, new forms are occasionally administered. |
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Collection & Processing Notes Monthly Household Panel: Each of the four-village clusters is assigned to a local team consisting of 12 enumerators, one field supervisor, one field editor, and one soil/environmental person. Much of the team consists of individuals hired from the local area, and they commute to work each day. The rest of the team, including those from the Bangkok office, reside in the local office. All interviewers speak the language of the households to which they are assigned – Thai, Lao, Khmer, or Sui. Common meals are eaten at the district office, and the first round of data entry takes place there. There are both periodic and random visits from the Bangkok staff, including the project director. Questionnaires, data disks, and environmental samples and measurements are sent to Bangkok, and about 10% of recently completed interviews are double-checked with random re-interviews of the surveyed households. Data are double blind entered into an ACCESS database that has dual Thai and English language capabilities. The enumerators themselves enter the data of another enumerator. All data entry is supervised and checked by the field supervisor and team leader. In Bangkok data entry takes place on ten PCs connected to a LAN system, with a separate data entry staff. Thai language answers are entered, translated into English, and then entered into a separate database. |
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| Census: A team of enumerators, in cooperation with the headman and local officials, sketch a map of the village and its structures. Then individual enumerators visit each structure to identify its use. For residential structures, the census is administered to the head or head’s spouse. Answers are cross checked by the team leader and field supervisor in the field, with re-interviews and clarifications when necessary. Data are entered into an ACCESS database at the local office of the project and then reentered in Bangkok. The original Thai script is entered, and English translations are done afterward. Double blind entry and subsequent checks for inconsistency remove virtually all data entry errors. | ||
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