OPEN - ESDS

Administration and checking tima 8.8
For checking each fully cooperating household - 1 hour 35 !mnutes includlng
oc~patiOn coding, following specified checks listed on K schedule and scanning
schmdules for omissions and completeness of data.
For checking scheduleg for a household that promised cooperation, but later fsiled
to cooperate - 45 minutes.
For checking a household that pronused co-operation but had to bs reallocated to
another interviewer for final CS1lS - 1 hour.
For checking reallocated households where initial interview was done by another
interviewer - Ihour.
[ie both placing inter viewer snd pickup interviewer can claim one hour) .
You should claim these on normal cla~ms form.
NCTE: Admnlstratlon time, which forms part of clerlcal time, hss now been
separated out. to allow for extra quest~ons on the schedules. We havs howe ver not
reduced the 1 hour 35 minutes allowed per co-operating household for checking
purposes.
Working away from home on eubsiatencm 8.9
If your quota inml vss staying away from horns on omrnight subsistence, you should
take extra care when planning and rraklng appointments for interviews and checking
calls. Your aim should be to keep the numbsr of days away from home to a min~mum.
In practical terms thig means ensuring that your checking calls are congregated
together (so the first call, for example, could be made Mtween three and six days
from the inter view ). Likewise with interviews: your aim should bs to group
inter=sws together. If you find that a calendar week (Monday to Friday) covsrs
two placing weeks, eg the end of week one (up to the 7th) and the start of week two
(8th-15th), then, rather than starting on the first of the month de you nught
otherwise do, ycm should aim to place eight inter views during that calendar week,
as well as making any checking calls you can in that week, and then go home and not
retUrn to tha area Until you can again group gome more calls together. And, of
course, while you are in the area, you should be prepared to work long days (at
least 7 hours) if there is work anilable during the day time.
Finally you should arrange economical pick-up calls at the end of the
record-kseping fortnight; where Informants are coping well with record keeping, lt
MAY be sensible to arrange for them to post diaries to you.
Pleaee do keep ue informed of Your work-pattern if it strays =ry far from the
norm.
If your quota is VERY isolated, it would be better to discuse the quota
lndivzdually w~th the field officer.
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