RWANDA - Demographic Health Survey 2010

Start	End	Cycle
2010-09-26	2011-03-10	N/A

Face-to-face [f2f]
Thirty-eight women and men were trained from June 14-July 2, 2010, in the administration of the RDHS survey instruments, anthropometric measurement, hemoglobin testing, malaria testing, and blood drawing for HIV testing. Seven days of fieldwork were followed by one day of interviewer debriefing and examination. Pre-test fieldwork was conducted in 230 households in two rural and two urban villages outside of City of Kigali. The majority of pretest participants attended the main training and served as field editors and team leaders for the main survey.

NISR recruited and trained 117 participants, and at the end of the training it retained 105 to work as field personnel. The main training was conducted from August 16-September 14, 2010. The training consisted of instruction regarding interviewing techniques and field procedures, a detailed review of items on the questionnaires followed by tests, instruction and practice in weighing and measuring children, and mock interviews and role plays among participants in the classroom. Each of the fifteen data collection teams included a team leader, a field editor,
three female interviewers, one male interviewer, and one biomarker staff member.
Fieldwork was conducted from September 26, 2010, to March 10, 2011. Questionnaires and blood samples were regularly delivered to NISR headquarters.

Three questionnaires were used for the 2010 RDHS: the Household Questionnaire, the Woman's Questionnaire, and the Man's Questionnaire. They are based on questionnaires developed by the worldwide Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program and on questionnaires used during the 2005 RDHS and 2007-08 RIDHS surveys. To reflect relevant issues in population and health in Rwanda, the questionnaires were adapted during a series of technical meetings with various stakeholders from government ministries and agencies, nongovernmental
organizations, and international donors. The questionnaires were translated from English and French into Kinyarwanda.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda	NISR	MINECOFIN

Fieldwork supervision was conducted by NISR, NRL, and ICF International through regular visits to teams to review their work and monitor data quality. The UNICEF team also regularly visited the teams in the field. Additional contact between the central office and the teams was maintained through cell phones.