Ghana - Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998, Round 3

Start	End	Cycle
1998-09	1998-12	N/A

Face-to-face [f2f]
A three week training workshop was organised for interviewers, supervisors and editors. This was preceeded by a pilot survey to test all instruments and methodology of the survey. Interviews were conducted mainly in the local languages. On average, it took about 50 minutes to administer the women's questionnaire and about 30 minutes to administer the men's questionnaire.
Supervisors were provided with control forms to track the work done on the field. Members of the project implementing team also paid regular visits to the teams to ensure that they adhered to good data collection practices .

GDHS 1998 used three questionnaires. All the questionnaires were devoloped in English and three Ghanaian Languages, namely, Akan, Ewe and Ga. The questionnaires used for the 1998 GDHS were not too different from those of the previous rounds.

Household questionnaire was administered in each household. This questionnaire collected information on household members including sex, age, relationship and salt iodisation.

Women questionnaire collected information on the respondent's educational background, birth history, pregnancy and breasteeding, marriage, use of contraception and knowledge about HIV/AIDS.

The men questionnaire also collected information on the respondent educational background, marriage, fertility, use of contraception and knowledge of HIV/AIDS.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Ghana Statistical Service	GSS	Ofice of the President

Each team was composed of a supervisor, an editor, four interviewer (two male & two females) a nurse and a driver. The supervisor was the team leader who had to oversea that team members follow and apply instructions. Interviewers had to edit their own work immediately after interview even before he/she leaves the household for onwards submission to the editor. The editor then has to do thorough editing of the questionnaires before passing them on to the supervisor sample editing before questionnaires are sent to the project secretariat.
Regional Statisticians, undertake regional monitoring exercise whereas zonal coordinators also embark on field monitoring to ensure data quality.