Nigeria - National Literacy Survey Nigeria-2009, First Round

Start	End	Cycle
2009-04	2009-05	14 days

Face-to-face [f2f]
The study used various instruments to collect the data. Apart from the main questionnaire that was developed for the survey and targeted the households and individuals, there were other instruments for the conduct of the assessment tests. The main questionnaire was structured in English Language but the interviewers were trained to translate and conduct the interview in local languages. To achieve this, interviewers were recruited based on the ability to speak the language of the environment where they would conduct the interviews in addition to English.

The instruments for the conduct of the assessment tests were therefore produced in 15 Nigerian Languages apart from English. These include Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Igala, Nupe, Effik/Ibibio, Iyache, Yala, Itsekiri, Berom, Idoma, Bokyi, Esan, Edo and Yagba.

To determine the literacy status, two methods were used: self reporting (one's ability to read and write) and actual testing (assessment of literacy status) of respondents. Unlike the previous surveys that relied on self-confessions, tests were administered to examine the respondents' levels in literacy and numeric. Those respondents who had education up to the senior secondary school level were, however, exempted from the test.

Household Interviews will be done in a roving manner by 4 teams Each team comprises of 4 interviewers and 1 field supervisor .
A total of 16 interviewers and 4 field supervisors will be required in each state Each team will canvass 100 households in the 10 EAs

High level officers from NBS and NMEC will be involved in the monitoring exercise. There will be two levels of monitoring. The first will be the monitoring and on-the-job supervision of the field personnel, (interviewers and supervisors). This will involve State Monitors and the NBS State Officers. The second will be the monitoring of field work in the States by the Zonal Coordinators and NBS Zonal Controllers. For both cases, the Monitoring/Quality Control Forms will be completed. The monitoring exercise is to ensure high quality and reliable data.

Retrieval
All completed and edited questionnaires by each team will be in the custody of the field supervisor who is the team leader. The Team leader will submit same to the NBS State Officer who will make arrangement for forwarding all the records for the State to NBS HQs, Abuja. Returned Questionnaires should be forwarded to NBS HQ.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
National Bureau of Statistics	NBS	FGN

In order to ensure reliability, acceptability and good quality of data collected, some quality control measures were designed for the survey. One of them was the involvement of the major stakeholders from relevant ministries, agencies and parastatals in the planning and implementation of the survey. This led to the formation of the MICS Inter-Sectoral Task-Force Committee comprising members drawn from ministries and agencies including
Health, Education,
Women Affairs,
Water Resources,
Planned Parenthood
Federation of Nigeria (PPFN),
National Planning Commission,
ILO and UNICEF.

Members met periodically to design and review the questionnaires before the main survey commenced. The members were involved in the monitoring of the survey in some states and carried out independent quality checks in the field. They were also involved in the review of tables generated for the survey and the analysis. Quality control forms such as interviewer assignment sheet, supervisors’ control and assignment sheets were used and retrieval forms were designed to monitor the survey.