The check list
To make sure you don’t forget a step
What is to be done beforehand
- Define what you want to find out. Determine your time and money resources
- Define the target group.
- Think about where you will find them: in which places (town, village, suburbs….) and in what context (knocking on doors, private meetings, public spaces, online?).
- Check out the legal situation
- Adjust your target group according to time, money, availability and legal situation
- Develop/ adapt a questionnaire
- Make a time table
Now get practical – Going to the field
- Number your 100 copies
- Note times, locations and interviewers on a table
- Don’t forget the notebook for additional infos
- Think about how you want to adress the interviewees, what you want to say before and during the interview
Evaluation/ Analysis
- To maintain international transferability it is recommended to also have an English version.
- transfer the results for example to an to an Excel chart
- Calculate percentages within certain groups: Age, education, urban/rural (e.g. 60% of 16-20y olds were cut by doctor)
- Calculate the percentage for each answer (e.g. 40% were cut by midwifes)
- Select useful data for charts and graphics to put in your study
- Explain each chart and graphic and describe what you did
- Conclusion 1: List your results. Can you say something about correlations? (e.g. the older the women the more likely they are cut by midwifes and not doctors)
- Conclusion 2: What could be improved in the next survey? (difficulties with a question, answers you didn’t foresee)
- Recommendations: Can you recommend something to your government based on your results?
Just think: Better be simpel!