HIES KIRIBATI 20192020 VIEWS ON CAPI AND RECALL

HIES KIRIBATI 2019/2020 VIEWS ON CAPI AND RECALL METHODOLOGY Aritita Tekaieti NSO

KNSO experience on CAPI is a tool that contributes a lot towards the improvement of the quality of data and data collection But CAPI can only benefit your survey when you tell it what to do. We have 1 Data Manager, 5 Data monitoring Staff and 5 teams of 1 Supervisor and 3 interviewers, for South Tarawa – an extra of 2 to lessen the load in urban and an extra 1 interviewer to lessen the load for Kiritimati. All of the five teams are now familiar with consistency check. Looking back to round 1 of collection, all team have progressed and are left with minimal number of typing errors and inconsistencies. Person data as well as Household and Income and expenditure data are getting much more consistent and reasonable to the context of Kiribati.

HIES – FLOW CHART FOR CAPI PROCESS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVITIES Supervisors (4) Data Manager Data Monitoring team (5) Project Manager Project Coordinator Logistics Interviewers (12) Interviewer (2) for Sth Tarawa Interviewers (3) Supervisor Driver (1) Finance Interviewer (1) for Xmas

How we optimize usage of TECHNOLOGY to enhance the efficiency of CAPI. For assisting CAPI in Kiribati we created 2 separate chatgroup on facebook messenger for communicating and follow ups. 1. for everyone on the team 2. for supervisors and headquarters We also meet on the common errors and write explanatory notes why they get the errors on fb messengers. This is also used vice versa by the interviewers for clarification. Another communication strategy we pay monthly with ATHKL “business talk connection” available for all the headquarters phone numbers and all supervisors phone numbers so it is free to call between these numbers. This is used day and night. It is very crucial where islands ran out of recharge cards. The Data Manager transfer data to Stata and analyse the errors then work on it with the Data Monitoring Staff and they reject for Interviewer to review and correct. This is daily work.

Challenges with Limited Internet connections • One Island – the main internet connection was down, there is only one private connecting at the secondary school. The supervisor had to sync the data and get the Headquarters monitoring team to check the consistency as there is no hope for connection. For the whole 6 weeks it is done as such. • Most islands – the sync can only be done at the island council where the supervisors and her team had to ride motorcycles on bad conditioned roads to sync given the weather is fine with no rain and clear sky. • Those with no internet connection at all we have to programme as part of the risk plan spare tablets in case the ones used are full and carefully look after the tablets to avoid losses. The office depend on the supervisor checking for inconsistency – which brings us to a need of Guidelines for Secondary Editings.

KNSO View on Recall methodology HIES 2019/2020 • The 7 - day recall is a good length of time • Main diet in Kiribati is basically seafood/fish and rice • Fruits and vegetables are limited to the quality of soil on our atoll islands. Under/over value? ? ? on Food 1. On Non food/ other income - Double Counting • Some income or expenditure need to have a distinguish space for capturing – copra and coconut are 2 different things. Coconuts is 20 cents for 1 if you purchase goods or 6 coconut for $1 if you exchange for cash. Copra is $2/kg Partaker – needs to be valued as it can increase consumption and number of HH member • Other sort of investment on income – 2. Food away from Home – can be undervalue if not overvalue • Also winnings from bingo especially when 3. Not Clear how to value food consumed at parties, food at other places, gifted food from a party – need a consistent estimate valuation of this consumption. “kare” there is a mismatch with labour or expenses. • These are stationed at remittances for the sake of not leaving them behind.

Recommendations/Views on CAPI 1. Interviewers to be trained on the concepts of the questionnaires –why do we collect them. 2. Sit together with the country and develop the programming of the capturing system and ensure handover to the Data Manager and finalized everything. This includes the good capturing space for all different aspects of income or expenditure so to avoid confusion and DOUBLE COUNTING. 3. Create 5 SPOTCHECK random questionnaire for supervisors to confirm households are visited. 4. Develop guidelines/manuals even if syntax for secondary editing for qualifying the data especially when the data is back from the field area/island, for consistency.

Recommendations/Views on Recall Methodology • Methodology is cheaper, good for islands with limited resources. • Good length especially with limited variety of diet and not variety of vegetables and fruit. • The difficult concept is to measure the consumption to distinguish how much they purchase and figure out how much they consume let alone to value it. E. g we use how much they cook every time and how many times they cook a meal in a day. • The valuing of gifted goods including home production should have a kind of standard measurements for a week to recall, the weight of the goods, putting value to a good is difficult , it needs a probing question or small scales or just anything.

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