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Table 5 Management and monitoring of interviews in the EN-INDEPTH study

From: Electronic data collection in a multi-site population-based survey: EN-INDEPTH study

  Bandim Dabat IgangaMayuge Kintampo Matlab
GPS location1 No No Yes Yes No
Assigning interviews
 No of interviews assigned per interviewer per synchronisation 10 to 150 3 to 10 10 to 20 20 to 25 60 to 150
 Responsible for assigning interviews Site representative and supervisors Field coordinator Supervisors Supervisors Supervisors
Monitoring
 Survey Solution Headquarters progress No No Yes Yes No
 Separate tracking of progress2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Data cleaning
 Separate system Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
  1. 1The GPS function was enabled at all sites at the start of the survey. Sites with “Yes” maintained the GPS function during the survey. Sites with “No” disabled the GPS function
  2. 2Using Stata®, a do-file was created for sites to track the progress of the data collection to report progress every 2 weeks to the LSHTM team
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