The 1995/1996 Household Income, Expenditure - (PDF, 101 mb ...

The editor is the link between the enumerator and supervisor in the governorate where
he supervises activities of his enumerators, and reviews information provided in the
auxiliary form during field work, and the forms handed out by enumerators to ensure
soundness and integrity of information. His duties are as follows:
1. Attending the central training at CAPMAS Cairo headquarters
2. Participating with the supervisor in the local theoretical and practical training of
enumerators
·3. Handing enumerators a list of household samples under her domain, and other
forms necessary for the survey
4. Assisting enumerators in contacting and communicating with families surveyed,
and introducing objectives and advantages of the survey to families
5. Conducting regular field visits to support his enumerators to solving constraints
such as rejecting coordination, or to correct mistaken conception to the
enumerator particularly at the beginning of the period of the survey. He also has
to thoroughly review basic information (demographic) of all household members
to classify information later on according to this demographic information.
6. Conducting regular field visits without enumerators, visiting a sample of families,
and studying auxiliary forms to assess work progress and to be sure that the
enumerator reviews information recorded and initials the revised form, and
checking if the enumerator records information himself in case of the absence of
a literate household member.
7. Recording his remarks when visiting families In the page designed for this
purpose, and entering the date of the visit.
8. Preparing a simplified report on the survey's activities to the supervisor after each
field visit including the following:
a. Number of families visited per day including all families scheduled for his enumerators
b. A summary of common mistakes
c. A summary of a variety of problems facing enumerators
9. Receiving completed forms directly after the end of the survey, and performing
field revision by 10% of the forms, carrying out clerical revision of forms by
100%, and initialling his revision of forms.
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