Democratic Republic of the Congo Cognitive Test Results Question 6 Communication 6th Washington Group on Disability Statistics 10th-13th October 2006

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Democratic Republic of the CongoCognitive
TestResultsQuestion 6 Communication6th
Washington Group on Disability Statistics10th-13t
h October 2006

• Jean Chrysostome KABILA KATUJUDI

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Plan

• Methodology
• Translation of questionnaire
• Enumerator training
• Interviewing people
• Results
• Explanation of patterns

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Methodology (Sampling method)

• Without a disability sampling frame on disabled
  persons and non disabled and because the sample
  size is small, quota sampling is the suitable
  method.
• In order to cover rural and urban area, the sites
  retained and covered are Mbujimayi and Tshilenge.
  
• Mbujimayi is a city the capital of Kasaï
  Oriental province, one of the 10 provinces of
  DRC.

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Methodology (continued)

• A province is divided in districts, a district in
  territories.
• Tshilenge is one of the 3 districts of Kasaï
  Oriental and has a territory named Tshilenge,
  too. It is located in rural area.
• The sample size is small. Only 25 individuals
  have been interviewed as self report or with a
  proxy .

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Translation of questionnaire

• The questionnaire has been translated into two
  languages the French and Tshiluba.
• The process of translating has been completed to
  improve the understanding and facilitate the
  interviews. How?
• The team of translating was constituted by
  students of the Institut Supérieur Pédagogique
  as translators and two of their Professors as
  checkers.

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Translation of questionnaire(ctd)

• After the translating by translators, checking of
  translations by checkers, the questionnaire went
  to the enumerator training for another checking,
  and then the final version came from the
  enumerator training and was as its agreement.
• The fact that tshiluba is a written language and
  the team is used to translate texts make the
  translation easy and no difficulty.

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Enumerator training

• The interviewer training was facilitated by the
  CD Rom provided by the Washington Group.
• During more than two days, interviewers were
  provided with instructions on questionnaire
  administration.
• They watched CD Rom and understood well that the
  cognitive test is not so much a survey as an
  interview and it is very important for the
  interviewer not to help the respondents and to
  record exactly what they say .

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Interviewing people

• Five interviewers divided into two teams and
  each interviewer did 5 interviews (25
  respondents).
• Three interviewers operated in Mbujimayi (2 men
  and 1 woman) and two men in Tshilenge.
• They worked during the same time.

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Interviewing people (continued)

• About the self report and the proxy the list of
  person to be interviewed has been done before
  going on field. Arriving in the household or in
  the organization which the person belonging to,
  if the person listed could not answer, another
  member of that householder was selected to give
  answers concerning that listed person.

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Results

• On the 25 respondents 6 respondents have the
  difficulty of communication 2 with a lot of
  difficulty and 4 some difficulties.
• Among these 6 respondents, 2 answered themselves
  while for 4 answers have been provided by the
  proxy.

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Results

• Disabled respondents by organizations are given
  in the table below

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Explanations for responses

• Fourteen responses are non problematic response
  patterns 13 belongs to pattern A whereas 1 to
  pattern B
• Four are in bordeline response patterns and
  respectively belongs to pattern C for 3 and 1 to
  pattern J
• No problematic response pattern was observed.

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Explanations of responses(contd)Explanation for
the response pattern
Pattern Total Interpretation Explanation
A 13 Non problematic -
B 1 Non problematic -
C 3 Bordeline Bad comprehension of question
D-F 0 Bordeline -
G 0 Problematic -
I 0 Bordeline -
J 1 Bordeline Understanding with one ear
K-L 0 Bordeline -
M-N 0 Problematic -
Missing 7 - -
Total 25
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Thank you for your attention