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noted in Table 4. The focus groups should consist of questions to assess the purpose, clarity, and
completeness of items as well as length of time for completion, ease of administration, and readability
overall. The Field Test Participant Instructions and Feedback Forms should be utilised during
these focus groups and all participant feedback, both positive and negative, should be noted. The
Interviewer Comment Sheet should also be used for documenting all comments and suggestions
made by the interviewer/proctor. Incentives may be provided for participation in the Field Test.
Data Entry and Quality Control
Where applicable, the 40 surveys administered using mobile devices should be uploaded directly to the
online survey database (Vovici Survey Software at http://efm.matrixphcsurveys.com).
The remaining surveys should be entered using the same method as the one that will be used for the
baseline and follow-up data collection (scanned or data-entry by hand).
When data entry is conducted by hand, a 20% quality control check is expected. From each set of
survey instruments, 20% should be randomly selected by a second party and re-entered. The number
of discrepant entries should be noted on the Data Entry Form. An overall Quality Control Report
Form should be completed by the Field Test administrator.
Once all surveys have been entered into the survey database, each site should notify the Evaluation
Team.
3. Data Analysis
Each site is responsible for summarising all interviewer notes from the Interviewer Comment Sheets
and sending comments to the Evaluation Team, who will review the sheets and incorporate the
feedback as appropriate. Review of interviewer notes will result in qualitative findings including but not
limited to: questions that required additional clarification, questions where participants showed
reluctance to answer, levels of concentration throughout the interview.
In additional to this qualitative data, quantitative data analysis will be performed on a very basic level.
Using the Field Test data provided by the country site, comparison testing should be made between
the two different administration methods. Individual item responses (distribution of response categories
including refused or don’t know) and item completion also should be assessed. Analyses of completion
time should include the calculation of mean, median, and range of completion times for each method.
The Evaluation Team is responsible for this data analysis.
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