Rwanda - Rwanda Establishment Census 2017

Start	End	Cycle
2017-12-18	2018-01-21	N/A

Face-to-face [f2f]
A five-day training session was organised to train all field supervisors: Team leaders, Zonal and Regional Supervisors. The training of trainers took place at NOBLEZA Hotel during the period of 20th to 24th November, 2017. The purpose of this training was to train senior field personnel who were trainers of enumerators involved in the establishment Census data collection.

The training of trainers was followed by a two days field practice in KAMONYI district to test materials that were to be used for the training of enumerators and main field data collection. In this case, the electronic application used for the data collection of the establishment census was tested to ensure the flow of the questionnaire, skips instructions and modalities of responses.

Furthermore, the data transmission was tested from field to NISR's server as the data collection was supposed to use electronic devices (smartphones). After the pre-test, a debriefing session was held with the pre-test field staff, and improvement to the questionnaire, manual and application was made based on lessons drawn from the field test exercise.
In two rounds of 6 days each, about 1006 enumerators and 67 team leaders were trained for the main data collection countrywide. The trainings were conducted by trainers trained during the training of trainers in November 2017. During the trainings, class presentations were followed by mock interviews, group practice and role playing among participants. After the coverage of the questionnaire content, the focus was made on how to use electronic devices in data collection (data capture) by using smart phones device, GPS coordinates taking and data transmission. More practices were given to the enumerators to ensure the data quality and completeness of data collected regarding establishments census. Also field procedures were covered so that people follow same procedures during data collection.

The questionnaire was developed in English and translated into Kinyarwanda. Appropriate tests were performed which provided feedback to improve the questionnaire.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda	NISR	Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning

The data collection was carried out by 946 enumerators dispatched countrywide. One, two or more than two enumerators were assigned to do the enumeration within a sector according to the expected number of establishments. Two or more than two team leaders by district were assigned to supervise the data collection at district level and ensure smooth data collection activities and data quality. There has been a number of senior management visits to track the progress of the data collection.