Notes on data collection
----> Reference Period
The field work of the first wave started on 16/1/2012 and continued for 15 days distributed on 10 days for field work and 3 for office work. The 1 year reference period for the survey was broken down into (24) waves the work carried out during each wave continued for 15 days. Field staff was organized into teams that each consisted of 3 interviewers and a local supervisor . The survey used 68 teams were distributed by districts in each governorate.
----> Fieldwork organization
The IHSES fieldworkers will be organized into teams of three interviewers, headed by a supervisor. Each team is responsible for two gadahs (48 clusters) throughout the full 12-month period of data collection.
The team's work plan requires visiting four clusters per month -two from each gadah, as show in Figure 1 below. The month is divided into two waves. In Wave 1 (days 1 to 14), the team visits two clusters from one of the gadahs, and in Wave 2 (days 15 to 29)1, the two clusters from the other gadah.
In each wave, the team will move between clusters (but not between gadahs) on a daily basis, visiting one of the clusters on odd-numbered days, and the other cluster on even-numbered days.
Each interviewer will be responsible for three households, and will visit each of them every other day five times, with the following task schedule:
* In the first visit, the interviewer will complete sections 1 to 3 and 24, deliver the food consumption diaries and explain their use.
* In the second visit, s/he will transfer the data from the first day of diary-keeping to Section 12, and complete sections 4 to 8.
* In the third visit, s/he will transfer the data from the second and third day of diary-keeping to Section 12, and complete sections 9 to 11.
* On the fourth visit, s/he will transfer the data from the fourth and fifth day of diary-keeping to Section 12, and complete sections 13 to 16.
* On the fifth visit, s/he will complete sections 17 to 23.
After the last scheduled visit, the interviewer will conduct as many additional check-up visits as needed, to correct any doubts or inconsistencies in the data that might have been detected by the IHSES data entry program in any of the previous visits.
Each interviewer will use a dedicated laptop computer to enter the data from his three households on a daily basis, meaning that the correction of doubts and inconsistencies won't need to be postponed till the final days of the wave in many cases. In other words, error correction will also be a complement of the data-collection tasks scheduled for the second to fifth visits.
----> Training
World Bank carried out a 6-day workshop for main trainees in Beirut at the end of July 2011. In the Central Statistical Organization a training course also carried out in September (10-15) attended by central supervision team and governorates coordinators whereas Kurdistan Region Statistics Office carried out a training course in September (12-15) in Erbil Statistics Directorate attended by statistics directors in KR governorates and survey cadre.
At the beginning of October 2011 a 7- day second workshop was organized by the WB in Beirut to set the survey timetables and train trainers. In 3/12/2012, training and preparing IHESE field staff were launched in 7 training centers in (Ninevah, Kirkuk, Anbar, Baghdad, Wasit, Babil, Basrah ). In 20/12/2012 three training centers were opened in Erbil, Sulaimaniya and Duhouk where training courses were carried out for the 18 governorates field staff. The courses continued for 23 days of which 5 days were allocated for applied training in selected urban and rural areas of different social and economic levels.