Mobile Data Collection For Enumerators With Open Data

Mobile Data Collection For Enumerators With Open Data Kit (ODK) Android OS- Motorola 1

Outline o Phones in UNHCR surveys o Phone Property and Responsibility o Letting the household know you are using new technology o Introducing the Phone: The Motorola phones o Battery Management and phone settings o The application: Open Data Kit (ODK) o The Kakuma Nutrition Survey o Some tips 2

Phones in UNHCR surveys o Mainly in Eastern Africa Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan o Pros Better results Faster Easier to review daily results, give feedback o Drawback Expensive and fragile technology 3

Phone Property and Responsibility Theses phones are property of UNHCR, once enumerators have signed out their phone it is their responsibility to keep it safe. üDO NOT leave the phone unattended at any point. üDO NOT leave it on a desk, keep it in your pocket or your purse. üBe CAREFUL The enumerators will have to sign an agreement indicating what phones have been released to which enumerators on which date. 4

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KAKUMA Nutrition survey Android phone inventory list by team and day DATE: Pre. Test Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5 Team 6 Xperia Barcode/IMEI 351676030088209 351677030034813 351677030073092 351677030072961 351676030030847 351676030122990 G 1 Barcode/IMEI Team leader 12468001490007 12468001495048 12468001496087 12468001493050 12468001494843 12468001495998 Signature Team colour red yellow pink orange blue green 6

Let the household know you will be using a phone o This new technology might be intimidating o Let the person you are interviewing know what you are doing and why a phone is being used 7

Introducing the Phone (1) ON/ OFF button If you press this button once, you can go into airplane mode do this while you charge! MENU (to unlock) ON/ OFF button MENU (to unlock) Home BACK 8

Introducing the phone (2) 1 STATUS BAR: WIFI/Network/Flight mode/USB Connect Here you can see the status your phone is in. For collection you want to have it in Flight mode, for Synchronization in WIFI and for connecting to the computer in USB storage or USB Debug mode. 2 Settings Change the settings of the phone (Wifi, USB debug mode) here. 3 ODK Collect This is the software enumerators use to collect the information. 4 Applications This button gets you into the application menu 9

Battery Management To help save battery life… WIFI OFF Luminosity set to low on the phone Charge battery if needed 10

Other settings o Make sure Date is set correctly If not ok, uncheck automatic and set date and time manually 11

ODK • This is the application where enumerators enter data. • Enumerators will press ‘Fill Blank Form’ button the most. 12

Navigating the Questionnaire After selecting ‘Start New Form’ enumerators select any of the forms. 13

Health and Nutrition survey Kakuma When the enumerator reaches this screen, the screen of the phone needs to be “swiped” with the finger. The enumerator will swipe the screen every time he/she needs to go to the next question. 14

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Health and Nutrition survey Kakuma Example: This is an example of selecting one of the items on the form. When there is a circle (radio button), only one can be checked. 16

Health and Nutrition survey Kakuma Example: This is an example of where an enumerator would fill out a form with text. The enumerator can use the key pad on the screen, or the phone key pad. For some fields, ONLY letters can be used, and for other fields, ONLY numbers can be used. Ranges are set. 17

Check All that apply Example: This is an example of selecting one OR more items on a list. When there is a box with a check-mark, more than one can be checked. . 18

Add another group Example: Add another group; if there are more than one woman or child in one household you can add them all one by one 19

Saving the Questionnaire üWhen enumerators are at the end of the questionnaire and they do not have to go back to the same household, they will tick ‘Yes’. ü They will save the record. üThey will NOT mark data as finished Data will be reviewed by enumerators or supervisors. 20

Review Saved Data Enumerators or supervisors will review saved data, by pressing the Continue Saved Data button. For Enumerators this will be relevant if they have to go back to a household to verify or get more data. The Questionnaires will appear in the same sequence as they were saved. 21

Some tips… When accidently moving away from the form? o Just go back, the application will resume from the point you left it; if you hit return by accident, it will ask you whether you want to leave the application. Make sure you save before you do so. What to do when the form crashes? o Turn the mobile off and back on again. Verify that your data has been saved. Most of the times, the data is not gone. When the screen goes black? o The mobile is just in sleep mode. Press the power button 24

Exercises Exercise 1: Get familiar with the phone 1. Enter one record on the phone; fill the Mosquito form (Mosquito net coverage questionnaire). Fill in as realistically as you can. Save the record. 2. Enter one record on the Phone on the Women’s questionnaire. (Women questionnaire). Fill in as realistically as you can. Save the record. Volunteer to take notes at the flipchart; to collect all obstacles encountered. 25

Exercises Exercise 2: Scenario Team leaders to complete by themselves, others team up in pairs. WASH: Your interviewed household has four members: one woman (pregnant), one child (24 months), one teenage daughter (17 years old) and a adult man. They own two 15 litres containers which they filled twice yesterday. Additionally, they have one container of 3 litres which they also filled twice yesterday. They use water from a standpipe, which fortunately for them is just in the courtyard. They use a pit latrine which is only shared with the neighbouring household. After you completed and saved the record; go back, re-open the record and note down the Liter per Person per Day. 1. The woman and her daughter will also have to be entered in the Reproductive Women questionnaire. The daughter is ok with having the Hemoglobin taken and she is measured at 12. 3 g/d. L. The women is not receiving the iron pills yet. Complete the record and save it. 26

Exercises Exercise 3: Mock up interviews o o o Team up in pairs One individual is the respondent, one the surveyor Interview the respondent on the Food Security questionnaire Record his/her responses Note down any challenges or anything confusing 27