Planning of Post Enumeration Surveys Pres. 3

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Planning of Post Enumeration SurveysPres. 3
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Planning of PES

• Judicious planning for the PES is critical in
  order to yield reliable results
• Planning of PES should be
• Preceded by a clear and unambiguous statement of
  objectives as this facilitates to articulate
  planning of PES activities
• Synchronized with planning for the census
• Start early and adequate resources devoted to it
  as part of overall census programme

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Adequate financial allotment Without sufficient
  funds the PES would be poorly implemented and
  therefore may not produce better results than the
  census. This would defeat the whole purpose of
  evaluating a census
• Other resources There is need to have requisite
  number of specialist staff such as survey
  methodologists demographers data processing and
  computer programmers

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Secondment of personnel to the census effort is
  an option some countries may take in order to
  beef up the availability of personnel with
  requisite skills to the PES effort
• Procurement or leasing of equipment, e.g.
  vehicles transporting material and use for
  transporting supervisors, bicycles, in some
  countries, are used by enumerators as they go
  round collecting data from respondents,
  computers, software facilitate data processing
  etc.

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Technical planning - It is necessary to have
  sub-technical teams to work on the sample design
  plan for the implementation of the PES the
  design of a Dual System of Estimation plan,
  matching and the reconciliation exercise
• It is, therefore, necessary to develop a
  plausible survey pan with adequate budgetary and
  manpower requirements clearly spelt out

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Commitment to the philosophy of a PES it is very
  critical to have the top management of a
  statistical/census office committed to the
  philosophy of the PES, so that they can plan for
  resources and support its efficient
  implementation
• Establishment of an independent unit It is
  advisable that an independent PES planning and
  implementation unit is established. This also
  enhances the operational independence between the
  census and PES

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Elements of planning a PES
• Preparatory activities
• Data collection related activities
• Matching
• Reconciliation
• Data processing
• Estimation of coverage and content error
• Report preparation and dissemination

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Preparatory activities
• (i) Compilation of EA maps
• (ii) Plan for sample design estimation
  procedures
• (iii) Drafting of questionnaire
• (iv) Drafting field manuals
• (v) Development of matching and
  reconciliation visits rules
• (vi) Production of a tabulation analytical
  plans
• (vii) Conducting of a Pilot - test
• (viii) Finalization of questionnaires,
  enumerators and
• supervisors manuals. Modification,
  if need be, to the
• design of the PES

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Data collection related activities
• (i) Conducting publicity campaigns
• (ii) Recruitment and training of field staff
• (iii) The actual PES data collection
• Matching
• (i) Development of matching manual
• (ii) Initial matching
• (iii) Final matching after reconciliation

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Reconciliation
• (i) Developing instructions for field
  reconciliation visits
• (iii) training of enumerators and supervisors
• (iv) Carrying out reconciliation visits
• (v) Final decisions on unresolved cases with
  respect to final status
• Data processing
• (i) Selection or development of computer
  programmes for data processing, tabulation
  estimation
• (ii) Recruitment and training of data
  processing staff
• (iii) Carrying out data entry, editing and
  tabulation

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Estimation of coverage and content error
• (i) Estimation of coverage error
• (ii) Estimation of content error
• Report preparation and dissemination
• (i) Analysis of PES results including
  producing and interpretation of sampling errors
  for key variables
• (ii) Preparation of PES analytical report
• (iii) Dissemination of results

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Budgeting items
• Professional staff
• Field staff
• Office staff linked to PES
• Equipment and other material
• Transport
• Printing

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Professional staff
• (i) PES Director/Manger
• (ii) Sampling statistician and/ survey
  methodologist
• (iii) Data processor
• (iv) Data analyst
• Field Staff
• (i) Enumerators and Supervisors (including
  field staff to carry out reconciliation)
• (ii) Drivers

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Office staff for the PES
• (i) Matching clerks
• (ii) Matching supervisors
• (iii) Data entry staff
• (iv) Data entry supervisors
• Transport
• (i) Vehicles
• (ii) Petrol
• (ii) Bicycles

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Equipment and other material
• (i) Microcomputers
• (ii) Field supplies
• (iii) Office supplies
• Printing and reproduction
• (i) Questionnaires
• (ii) Manuals and quality assurance forms
• (iii) EA maps
• (iv) Publicity material publication of
  reports

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Publicity campaign
• Critical to encourage active participation of
  respondents
• Advance publicity is necessary as it prepares for
  cooperation from prospective respondents
• The objective is to obtain high response rates
  and thereby reducing non-response errors

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Planning of PES (contd.)

• Different types of publicity
• Different approached may be used depending on
  prevailing circumstances
• An assortment may include radio, television,
  newspapers, posters and focus group meetings
• Arrange meetings of local opinion leaders to
  present objectives of the PES so that people
  could be persuaded to cooperate with the
  enumerators and to provide to them the required
  information

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