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p Agro-dealers
on a site visit to learn how other dealers conduct business.
attendees were presented with the participant categories list and asked to self-identify the one which best applied to them. On the registration sheet, participants reflected the participant category number alongside their name, shop name (if applicable), mobile telephone number, district and other basic details that were collected. TE1-AGT forms were only administered to those category 12 (agro-dealer shop proprietor or manager) and 13 (cooperative manager) participants.
TE1-AGT Data Entry Local partners couriered all completed TE1-AGT questionnaires to IFDC’s ESAFD office at the conclusion of each training event. ESAFD took inventory of the questionnaires received and then relayed them by courier to a data entry consultant based in Kiboko, Kenya. The consultant was contracted for three tasks: u Design of a database to house the data for future use and data entry template. u Data entry of unabridged questionnaire content into the database. u Data entry of abbreviated questionnaire content into ACTESA web-based form and upload into the
database housed on the ACTESA server. The consultant also undertook a screening task of the questionnaires in accordance with specific guidelines according to the M&E plan. A questionnaire was eliminated if: u Primary occupation was extension officer. u If nature of agro-dealer business was not in retailing or distributing agricultural inputs. u If key sections of the questionnaire were left blank or contained no information.
By mid-December 2011: u 4,733 TE-1 questionnaires had been sent to the data entry consultant for processing. u 3,475 questionnaires were uploaded into the ACTESA mainframe database through the Internet and
broken down by country in the following table.