Ministry of Education Directorate of EMIS

Ministry of Education Summary Report of Education Situation ,Year 1388
partners including NGOs, donors and other government ministries to obtain a broader view of the
information needs for policy formulation and monitoring. Only limited feedback was received and
this was not sufficient to finalize the questionnaire. In designing the questionnaire special attention
was paid to avoid open-ended questions. Close-ended questions were used to facilitate the final
analysis. The final draft of the questionnaire, along with survey manuals, was prepared before
providing training to the enumerators.
A total number of 196 survey teams were formed to visit 12,081 schools over a period of 70 days.
Each survey team consisted of one Kabul ministry staff member and one monitoring staff member
from the Provincial Education Department. Thirty-four supervisory teams were formed comprising
one person from the Planning Department and one from each provincial department. The 400
district education staff members participated as facilitators and guides in their respective locations.
The surveyors and supervisors were then pooled to form 34 provincial survey teams, one for each
province. The number of surveyors for each province was proportionate to the number of schools in
the province.
The provincial survey teams were given a 10-day intensive training in Kabul before they were
dispatched to their respective provinces. In the provincial capital the teams held a planning session
with the education departments to develop a detailed work plan for the schools visit. Each team of
two surveyors was assigned one or two districts to cover.
Once in the districts, the teams conducted 2-day training for school headmasters on how to fill out
the survey forms. Then the survey team accompanied by the district education staff visited each
school to verify the forms filled out by the headmaster by matching the data with school documents
and records and conducting head counts of students. The surveyors also took a GPS reading.
Thereafter, all the forms were returned to supervisory team in the provincial centre for checking.
The supervisory team visited each of the survey teams in the field at least twice to inspect their work
and make sure they are visiting the schools as scheduled. The supervisory team was also responsible
for providing on-call support to the surveyors when required and carry out validation checks on all
the forms returned from the districts. If any inconsistencies were identified the survey team was to
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