Nigeria - Demographic and Health Survey, 2008, Fifth Round

Start	End	Cycle
2008-06	2008-10	120days

Start	End	Cycle
2008		5 years

Face-to-face [f2f]
NPC recruited and trained 368 people for the fieldwork to serve as zonal coordinators, supervisors, field editors, female and male interviewers, reserve interviewers, and quality control interviewers. Training of field staff for the main survey was conducted during a three-week period in May-June 2008.

The training course consisted of instruction regarding interviewing techniques and field procedures, a detailed review of items on the questionnaires, instruction and practice in weighing and measuring children, mock interviews between participants in the classroom, and practice interviews with real respondents in areas outside the 2008 NDHS sample points.

During this period, field editors, team supervisors, and quality control interviewers were provided with additional training
in methods of field editing, data quality control procedures, and fieldwork coordination.

Thirty-seven supervisors, 37 editors, 152 female interviewers, and 74 male interviewers were selected to make up 37 data collection teams for the 2008 NDHS. Thirty-seven people were selected to be quality control interviewers.

Fieldwork
Thirty-seven interviewing teams carried out data collection for the 2008 NDHS. Each team
consisted of 1 supervisor (team leader), 1 field editor, 4 female interviewers, 2 male interviewers, and
2 drivers. Nineteen senior staff members from NPC, designated as zonal coordinators, coordinated

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
National Population Commission	NPC	Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN)

After the three weeks tranning field editors, team supervisors, and quality control interviewers were provided with additional training in methods of field editing, data quality control procedures.