Implementing agencies Pretest Recruitment, training and fieldwork
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Methodology interviewers collect data using handheld computers. The systems were developed and tested using the Hewlett Packard
HP iPAQ Pocket PC Model: iPAQ 210 and were used for data collection. Please refer to the manuals on GSS and Data Management and Implementation Guidelines for more details. Electronic data collection was useful for facilitating the
complex skip pattern used in the GATS Indonesia questionnaire as well some inbuilt validity checks on questions during the data collection.
The programming of the questionnaire using GSS was carried out in collaboration with in-country information technology IT personnel, WHO and CDC. Repeated quality-control mechanisms were used to test the quality of questionnaire
programming. The main steps involved in quality control checks were version checking for household and individual questionnaires, checking date and time, and skipping patterns. The entire process, including the questionnaire, data
collection using handheld machines and data aggregation to prepare raw data for analysis, was pretested. Handheld programming was finalized and the final questionnaire for data collection was uploaded onto the handheld
devices in August 2011 by in-country IT personnel, with WHO and CDC providing oversight to maintain quality assurance. The case file containing the electronic information used for identifying the selected household addresses was also uploaded
to the handhelds in September 2011, immediately after household activities and selection of households had been updated and completed. Please refer to the GATS Quality Assurance Manual for more details on case file and a complete listing of
quality control measures adopted in GATS.