Behavioural Surveillance Surveys - The Wisdom of Whores

Supervisors’ Duties :
As a Supervisor your duties are to :
1. Maintain close contact with your team
members in order to closely monitor and
support work being done at each stage
of data collection including sampling
specifications (sampling points, selection
of respondents), and interviewing
specifications. This is done to ensure
quality and consistency throughout the
data collection process.
2. Act as a resource person for your team
members thereby providing them with
answers and clarification to questions that
may or may not have been covered in
their guidelines.
3. Introduce your team members to the
various gatekeepers in order to facilitate
the fieldwork/interviewing process.
4. Organize and schedule activities of your
team members in order to ensure that the
planned activities of the team are met
within the required time frame.
5. Liaise with Tropical Diseases Research
Center on all matters related to fieldwork to
ensuring mutual agreement and consistency
of work.
6. Monitor the work-in-progress, prepare and
submit (by fax or e-mail) weekly reports to
the Project Manager.
7. To thoroughly review each completed
questionnaire in order to ensure that all
questionnaires filled in by team members
are comprehensively and correctly completed.
8. Act as a motivator to your team members.
9. Be available to assist in the training of team
members.
Part B: Field Control and
Editing Checks
The quality of the fieldwork/data collection
is one of the most important aspects of this
research exercise. It is therefore essential
that as a Supervisor you ensure that all the
fieldwork controls are adhered to and that all
fieldwork is thoroughly checked and edited.
Field Control
Fieldwork must be done in line with the
following specifications:
Female Sex Workers
The sample sizes for this target group are
as follows:
Livingstone - 400
Chipata - 400
Chirundu - 400
It is likely that two points of contact will
have to be made to complete an interview
with this target group. The first point of
contact will be on the business night at the
place of congregation, for example bars, clubs,
street corners, homes (brothels) ; and the
second point of contact will be at the place
of interview. Attempts are to be made to
conduct interviews with CSWs on the business
night, however as they will be busy seeking
clients the success levels at this stage may
be very low. Interviewers are therefore to
arrange a time and point at which the interview
could be done the following day.
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