Ghana - Transport Indicator Database Survey 2012, Second Round

Start	End	Cycle
2012-09-01	2012-12-31	3 Months

Start	End	Cycle
2007		5 years

Face-to-face [f2f]
Training of enumerators and supervisors held for two weeks

The questionnaire had the following sections:

Section A: a household roster which collected basic information on all households members and household characteristics to determine eligible household members

Section B: an education section which was administered to household members aged 3 years and older on the use of transport services to school

Section C: a health section that was used to collect information on all household members on access and the use of transport services to health facilities

Section D: an economic activity section administered to household members 7 years and older to collect information on their economic activities and the use of transport services a market access section administered to household members engaged in agricultural activities to collect information on access to transport services for sale of farm produce

Section E: a general transport services section administered to all household members on the access and use of various modes of transport.

Section F: a general transport services section administered to all households and use of various modes of transport.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Ghana Statistical Service	GSS	Ghana Government

Interviewing was conducted by teams of interviewers. Each interviewing team comprised of 4 interviewers, a supervisor and a driver. Each team used a 4 wheel drive vehicle to travel from cluster to cluster (and where necessary within cluster).

Supervisors played an important role in ensuring the quality of data being collected. Among other things, the Supervisor:
(i) Review each questionnaire to be sure it is complete and internally consistent;
(ii) Helped to solve any problem in locating the listed households;
(iii) Helped the interviewers to understand the concepts in the questionnaire or interviewing difficult respondents.

The supervisor coordinated the field data collection activities, including management of the field teams, supplies and equipment, finances, maps and listings, coordinated with local authorities concerning the survey plan and made arrangements for accommodation and travel. Additionally, the field supervisor assigned work to the interviewers, spot checked the work interviewers did, maintained field control forms, and sent completed questionnaires and progress reports to the project secretariat at the head office.

Responsibilities of the supervisors were described in the Supervisors' manual together with the different field controls that were in place to control the quality of fieldwork.

Field visits were also made by a team of staff from the project secretariat on regular basis during the fieldwork.