Nigeria - National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2016-2017, First round

Start	End	Cycle
2016-11-07	2016-11-28	21 days
2017-03-06	2017-04-06	30 days

Face-to-face [f2f]
Supervisory activities for the National Survey on Drug use and Health (Household) include two levels of training, fieldwork arrangement, monitoring exercise and coordination.
The pilot testing adopted two levels of training which were the Training of Trainers (TOT) and the Training of Field Staff/ENumerators (TOE).
The field work arrangement for data collection consisted of two (2) teams per state. A team comprised of (1) supervisor and two (2) interviewers. Each state had six (6) field personnel. Fieldwork last for seven (7) days.

The interview was conducted in 5 different languages (English, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Pidgin) based on the preferred language of the respondent.

The pre-test exercise for the Problen Drug Use Assessment in Nigeria took place from 12th-16th December, 2016. The training of coordinators and interviewers was a key component of the preparatory stage of the project. Twelve (12) zonal coordinators were trained twice in Abuja on the use of the instruments developed for the project and on the administration of the protocol as a whole. Following these the coordinators recruited interviewers in each state assigned to them and participated in the training of the interviewers in Kaduna (for northern states) and Uyo (for southern states).

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
National Bureau of Statistics	NBS	Ministry of Budget and National Planning
Centre for Research and Information on Substance Abuse	CRISA

Carefully selected interviewers in each state conducted the two surveys.
Some of the responsibilities of the supervisors include contacting the local authority officials, locate the clusters/EAs (Urban and Rural) assigned to his\her team, assign works to enumerators and provide working materials, etc.

Three (3) teams were constituted in each state for the main HH surveyA team comprised of five (5) interviewers and one (1) supervisor. Fieldwork lasted for twenty (20) days and 18 field personnel were involved in each state which comprised15 interviewers and 3 supervisors.A total of 666 field personnel were involved Nation wide
During the data collection for the household survey, monitoring exercise was mounted to ensure that data to be collected were of high quality. Monitoring was done by: 1) NBS state and Headquarters staff 2) Independent monitors from MRC and 3) UNODC officials. Senior officers of NBS coordinated the training and fieldwork activities.

In selecting the interviewers for the problem drug use data collection exercise, emphasis was placed on familiarity with drug use and experience working with problem drug users, in which case the research team will seek collaboration with drug NGOs where they exist in each state.

Twelve (12) Zonal Coordinators were appointed to supervise data collection in each zone made up of half of the states in each of the six geo-political zones. In other words each zone has been divided into two for ease of operation and a coordinator was responsible for each project zone.

Independent monitoring teams from various government agencies helped to enhance the quality of data collection, and prepare a report on their work.

A team of people who represented key stakeholders – ministries, departments and agencies – monitored the data collection in all zones and were overwhelmingly satisfied with the conduct of the work. (Monitoring reports were submitted to and are available at the implementing organization – UNODC).