3C “Marking” respondents interviewed
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Once the respondents interviewed, it is important to “mark” households or individuals in order to recognise them and to avoid interviewing them multiple times. You could, for example, draw an X in chalk on the doors of the houses surveyed, or mark the hands of individuals who have already responded to the questionnaire with a stamp. This marking should become automatic when respondents to the KAP survey are compensated for time spent on interviews. The possible compensation of respondents only happens in cases of non-random selection of respondents, where targeted respondents belong to the hard to reach, or difficult to locate categories of people. The appeal of such compensation, whether financial or in offered goods, may lead some people to want to respond to the questionnaire several times to get compensated several times, which could jeopardise the representativeness of data collected. EN 58
3C One of the issues raised by marking participants is the respect of anonymity when participating in a study and the risk of stigmatisation (in the case of surveys of persons living with HIV, sex workers, IDUs etc.).
3. Consent of respondents and confidentiality of the survey > Always remember the confidentiality of responses and collect the informed consent of respondents; > Seek parental permission to interview minors.
However, the marking may prove to be necessary. The decision whether or not to mark participants, and the type of marking used is therefore something that needs to be evaluated for each study. It is the responsibility of the field team and the S2AP to assess if there are any risks to using marking.
4. Recognise the respondents interviewed > Develop a marking system to more easily recognise the respondents already interviewed, especially when the KAP interviews are compensated.
Summary: running a KAP survey
1. Mobilising surveyors and supervisors Surveyors: > Organised into teams and recruited for a period appropriate to the implementation of the survey; > provided with their per diems, a detailed roadmap and the necessary equipment.
Supervisors: During the KAP survey conducted in Burma, the respondents were all drug users. Compensation was provided for all interviews to motivate these people to give their time answering the questionnaire. To prevent abuses and ensure that the IDUs did not go multiple times to different surveyors, the team put a red dot on the shoes of all respondents who had completed an interview. This allowed surveyors to know whether a person had been interviewed or not, even when they had not themselves conducted the interview.
> Divided between the different teams of surveyors; > provided with “tally sheets” to keep track of the progress of the survey.
2. Select respondents who will participate in the survey > Identify as many respondents as possible by random selection and always repeat the same mode of selection (households and individuals); > For household surveys: interviewers evaluate household composition in terms of eligibility criteria in order to interview the “right kind of respondent” and to complete the modules.
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