Human Development Cash Transfer Program Impact Evaluation - Midline Household Survey 2018

As the main task of CAETIC Développement was to implement the established survey protocol and to make all the necessary effort to ensure high data quality, the overall approach adopted by CAETIC Développement was established upon the following aspects:

1. Investigators’ recruitment and training: Investigators were preselected on the basis of various criteria, including but not limited to intellectual, physical, and moral quality. Preselected investigators followed a 12 days training. For the MDAT test, preselected investigators were assessed on their ability to perform high quality child observations, and were certified later on. Only certified investigators were recruited for the data collection. It should be stressed that even the investigators who participated for the baseline survey were trained and assessed on the same way as the new candidates;
2. Use of CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Intrerview) approach for data collection: this means using an electronic questionnaire during the interview. The CAPI approach allows data entry directly on the computer during the interview and exhaustive control of the questionnaire, with a special focus to completeness, jumps, coherences, and likelihoods;
3. Implementation of an operational plan to insure optimal control in the field: The survey was carried out by 22 teams. Each team was formed by two or three pairs of investigators, under the supervision of a team leader, whom could be a controller or a supervisor. For the MDAT test, investigators worked in a team formed by an examiner and an assistant. Fieldwork was organized in such a way that each team of investigators doesn’t work out of reach of their supervisors.