Ghana - Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys 2007

Start	End	Cycle
2007-05-23	2007-07-18	N/A

Face-to-face [f2f]
Ten teams were formed for the PETS fieldwork which was conducted throughout the country from May 23 to July 18, 2007. Each team comprised a supervisor (1), 4 interviewers (5 in some cases, where the workload is heavier) and a driver.

Generally each team was assigned one region, except Ashanti which had 2 teams and Upper East and Upper West that were assigned to one team.

Each team had at its disposal one 4x4 cross country vehicle/pick-up, which were hired for the exercise.

Twenty-nine sets of questionnaires were designed for the survey

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Ghana Statistical Service
Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Health

As quality control measure, scheduled and random field monitoring/supervisory visits were made by experienced and senior personnel from the GSS, Education and Health Sectors to check on the logistics, quality and progress of the data collection exercise.

The field returns were checked and edited manually before data entry