Nigeria - Lagos Household Survey -2005-2006, First round
Reference ID | NGR-LASG-COS-HHSURVEY-2006-v1.0 |
Year | 2005 |
Country | Nigeria |
Producer(s) | Central Office of Statistics (COS) - Lagos State Government |
Sponsor(s) | Lagos State Ministry Of Economic Planning and Budget - MEPB - Funding Lagos Metropolitant Development and Governance Projects/ World Bank - LMDGP - Funding World Bank - WB - Funding |
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Created on | Oct 18, 2010 |
Last modified | Dec 02, 2013 |
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Data Collection
Data Collection Dates
Start | End | Cycle |
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2005-06-06 | 2005-09-02 | 60 days |
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
The Field trainning on the use of palm top PC loaded questionaire and pre-test for the survey took place from June 12, 2005 - June 17, 2005 and included 10 supervisors and 50 interviewers for the main survey. Also in attendance were 10 staff from office of statistics. The World Bank officials on IT Messrs. Pim Kimenta and Virgine Boucard were on ground to take the fieldworkers through.
Each consulting firm provided 5 supervisors and 25 interviewers and each interviewing team comprised of 5 interviewers ( male of female) together with a field editor who also doubled as the supervisor. The supervisors were specially trainned tn the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) to capture Data collection took place over a period of about 4 weeks from July 6, 2005 until September 2nd , 2005.
Interviewing took place everyday throughout the fieldwork period, although interviewing teams were permitted to take one day off per week. Interviews averaged 50 minutes for the household questionnaire and were conducted primarily in English and translated to pidgin English as well as Yoruba native language by interviewer.
Data Collectors
Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation |
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Central Office of Statistics | COS | Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget |
Senior management teams of the two consulting outfits provided overall fieldwork coordination and supervision. The Office of Statistics too was on the field to stricktly monitor the field excercise for compliance and logistic assistance. GPS capture to determine the GIS information of the respondents location were also carried out by the supervisors in addition to field editing of the survey instrument on palmtop for effective performance. The directors In the Office office of Statistics also visited the fieldm on periodic basis during the excercise.
The supervisor is also responsible for the uploading of the completed questionaires into the designated laptop
Each interviewer covered average of 3 households per day, thus each team could complete 75 households (i.e. one zone) per day. An interviewer therefore covered a maximum of 18 households per week, assuming 6 effective working days per week. Hence the sample size of 6000 households were covered within 4 weeks.