Survey of Living Conditions and the Household Budget Survey: Important Reminders

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Survey of Living Conditions and the Household
Budget SurveyImportant Reminders
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Reminders

• 1) Why do we need the survey?
• 2) How much will the enumerators be paid?
• 3) How much is the incentive of households?
• 4) Who will supervise the enumerators?
• 5) What things enumerators need to carry?
• 6) Who to call and what numbers if enumerators
  have issues?
• 7) What will the ESO do with the questionnaires?
• 8) What to do just before you go to households?
• 9) What to do on your first visit?
• 10) How can field supervisors help?
• 11) How can enumerators help to ensure the
  integrity of the survey?
• 12) What to do on Monday?
• 13) When is the survey period?

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1) Why do we need the survey?

• To gather data for estimating the cost of living
  index (or Consumer Price Index) in the Cayman
  Islands
• gt we need to change the current CPI basket of
  goods and services because the current one is 15
  years old!
• gt the CPI is a basis for salary/wage reviews
  in the private sector and government!
• To estimate how much income is needed to meet the
  food, educational, medical, housing and other
  costs required at the poverty line (or above the
  poverty line)

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1) Why do we need the survey?

• To estimate the number and gather socio-economic
  characteristics of the following
• gt families below the poverty line
• gt families in the poverty line
• gt families above the poverty line
• To have a quantitative basis for reviewing and
  changing the social development policies and
  programs of the Government

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1) Why do we need the survey?

• It is important for
• our enumerators
• to be convinced that
• we folks from all income strata -
• need these surveys!

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2) How much will the enumerators be paid?

• Payment per household
• Household Questionnaire - 40
• Individual Questionnaire - 15 for each person
• Diary of Expenditures - 10 per spending adult
• Allowance for cell phone and gas - 10 per
  household
• Payment will be subject to completion and
  submission of ALL forms and the diary!!

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2) How much will the enumerators be paid?

• Payments will be made monthly. Each enumerator
  will be asked to survey cover 15-18 households
  per month
• Assuming an enumerator surveys 18 households
  with an average of 3 adult members, an enumerator
  can get 2,250 per month.

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3) How much is the incentive of households?

• Households will be give a token of appreciation
  of 25 per adult member
• To be paid upon completion of ALL forms and the
  diaries by the household at the end of 2 weeks.
• Enumerators will give the payment and will ask
  the household to sign a receipt printed on the
  last page of the household questionnaire.
• Enumerators should call the ESO one day before
  vouchers shall be paid to the household which
  should normally be the last day of the 2nd week.

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4) Who will supervise the enumerators?

• Five (5) field supervisors will spot check the
  work of enumerators.
• There will be 1 supervisor assigned to every 7
  enumerators on the average.
• ESO will have overall supervision of all
  enumerators and field supervisors

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4) Who will supervise the enumerators?

• Sonia Campbell
• gt Estille Stilling gt Melanie Scott gt Simon
  Bennet gt Levia Hume- Ebanks
• gt Tammy Bush gt Todd Deosaran
• Rupert Hoilett
• gt Derrie Richardson gt Kedroy Laing gt
  Margaret Ebanks
• gt Carmen Davis gt Chevonne Russell gt Wilma
  McLaughlin gt Darlene Ebanks
• Horace Parker
• gt Charlene Peart gt Desmond Chisholm gt
  Gregory Watt gt Herbert Mitchell
• gt Indian Watson-Scott gt Rohan Marshall gt
  Rosita Bodden
• Ivan Burgess
• gt Dane Bailey gt Tony James gt Kathleen
  Watson gt Carol Bodden
• gt Kristy Watler gt Laverne Monteith gt
  Andrew Wilmoth
• Joslin Marshall
• gt Cheryl Gayle Watt gt Debra Broderick
  gtFelicia Deslandes gtPatrice Myles
• gt Kayra Hydees gt Dustan Groome gt Debra
  Prendargast

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5) What things do enumerators need to carry?

• Bag containing the following supplies good for 2
  weeks for 9 households
• gt Questionnaire forms
• gt Dairies of expenditures
• gt Memory joggers
• gt Maps
• gt 2 pencils and a sharpener for the
  enumerators
• gt 27 pencils 1 each for every adult member
  of households
• gt 1 calculator for the enumerator
• Note ESO will replenish your supplies every 2
  weeks
• ID and authorization cards
• Oath or Affirmation of Confidentiality
• Statistics Law
• NALC brochures
• SLC flyers (for yourself)
• Note Households have a right to demand that
  you show the Oath or Statement of Affirmation

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6) Who to call if there are issues and what
number?

• Your field supervisors
• Sonia Campbell
• Rupert Hoilett
• Horace Parker
• Ivan Burgess
• Joslin Marshall
• ESO
• gt Yvonne Newland

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7) What will ESO do with the questionnaires ?

• Completed questionnaires and diaries will be
  submitted to field supervisors
• Field supervisors will sign off and submit to
  ESO
• ESO will validate whether forms have been
  completed and are acceptable for monthly payment.
• Once accepted, ESO will scan the questionnaires.
  
• Diaries will be coded and verified.
• Data from questionnaires and diaries will be
  processed and used for estimating cost and
  poverty indicators, and socio-economic
  indicators. No names or addresses will be
  processed.

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8) What to do before you go to a household?

• Pray!
• Check your kits and make sure you have a
  complete set of questionnaires and forms, etc.
• Make sure that you have your names and the names
  of your FS on the questionnaires.
• Check the address given to you and the map. All
  addresses should be in the map
• If you cant find the address after checking
  thrice, DO NOT select another address - call
  your FS!

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9) What to do on your first visit ?

• Pray!
• Remind yourself that on your first visit, your
  primary objective is to convince the household
  that the survey is important to them and to the
  community. The secondary objective is to get
  their cooperation!
• Be very courteous
• gt Introduce yourself as a member of the NALC
  team. (The NALC is a study supported by the
  Government, the Caribbean Development Bank, the
  Chamber of Commerce and Industry and many
  volunteers including yourself. The NALC is a
  comprehensive study of the well-being of
  families in the Cayman Islands).
• Note you can at this point give them a copy of
  the NALC brochure
• gt Mention that the address is one of 1,900
  randomly selected samples for the NALC survey.
• gt Explain briefly the purpose of the survey.

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9) What to do on your first visit?

• Explain that the survey requires the following
  forms to be completed by each household in two
  weeks
• 1 household questionnaire
• individual questionnaire for each adult
  member (18 years old and above)
• diary of expenditures for every adult
  member (18 years old and above)

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9) What to do on your first visit?

• Explain how the survey will be done
• Each questionnaire will be administered
  personally by you, i.e. through interviews
• The interview can be done on the first visit
  or on a 2nd or 3rd visit within 2 weeks. You
  should agree on the date/s.
• The expense diaries will be done on a weekly
  basis. Each adult member will be given a memory
  jogger (like a Post-It) that can help them
  complete their diaries. The first set of weekly
  diaries will be picked up by the enumerator one
  week after the first visit the second diary on
  the last day of the 2nd week.
• After completion of the survey by the
  household and all forms and dairies have been
  collected, the household will get their
  incentives (25 per adult member)

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9) What to do on your first visit?

• Once you get the household member smiling, you
  may want to start the interview.
• How many households live in this house?
  (Remember the definition of household)
• If there are more than 2 households, interview
  the household of the person you are currently
  talking to.
• RELAX and DO THE INTERVIEW
• IN A PROFESSIONAL
• BUT VERY FRIENDLY WAY!

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10) How can the field supervisors help you?

• They will
• review your 1st household interview before you
  move on to the 2nd interview
• review your 2nd household interview before you
  move on to the 3rd
• spot-check succeeding interviews all the way to
  the last week of April!
• sign off your questionnaires and diaries
• help you resolve issues you can call them!

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11) How can you help protect the integrity of
enumerators and the entire survey?

• By ensuring that everything you write in the
  forms are truly from the households.
• By remembering that wrong data will get back to
  your neighbors, your community, your family and
  to YOU!

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12) What to expect on Monday?

• If no one calls you before 11 AM you can come to
  the ESO at 2-5 PM to collect your kits.
• If you need to re-do the test questionnaires,
  you will be informed between 900 11 AM. You
  can collect another set of questionnaires from
  ESO at 2-5 PM.

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13) When is the Survey Period, etc?

• January 29-April 28, 2007
• All districts are included
• All enumeration areas (175) are included
• Survey Team
• gt 34 Enumerators
• gt 5 Field Supervisors
• gt 3 Editors, Coders, Verifiers
• gt 2 Consultants
• gt 12 ESO staff
• gt National Assessment Team Survey
  Sub-Committee

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THANK YOU!

• May GOD bless you!