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These visits had to be repeated at least three times until actual

contact could be established and interview concluded. In those cases

where the establishment was found to have closed down, or the living

quarters of the sampled household had been demolished, or there

were insurmountable problems in establishing contact, replacements

were taken from the reserve lists in the samples.

Each enumerator assigned to interview employees was given two

street blocks. Each street block contained 10 sampled living quarters,

plus three for reserve. During the visit to each living quarter, all

the employed persons were interviewed.

Supervision

All the enumerators were closely supervised. Each supervisor was

responsible for checking in detail the questionnaires returned by

the enumerators, including the coding, the correctness of the inter-

viewing methods used, and for advising them on any problems

encountered in their work. Each supervisor was assigned a team of

about 20 enumerators.

Quality check and Post-validation

In case a supervisor had any doubts on the coding or logic of

a returned questionnaire, he would contact the respondent personally

to verify the answers given.

After all completed questionnaires were returned by 7th December,

a 10% sample of the questionnaires was taken and these were

redistributed to different interviewers for revisit and recheck, to

confirm that the first visit had actually been paid and that the

crucial opinion questions had been correctly interpreted and the

answers accurately recorded. In case of discrepancy between the

results of the two interviews, all the work of the enumerator

responsible for the first interview was rechecked.

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