Rwanda - Agricultural Household Survey 2017

Start	End	Cycle
2017-07-18	2017-07-28	Listing of households
2017-07-30	2017-09-04	Interview for agricultural households

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data collection consists of two distinct phases: The first Phase, known as Listing of households, consists of visiting all sampled segments and after identifying a dwelling (household) enumerators through reading the definition of household to the household head, identify the number of households in that dwelling record the information on household's main activity whereby each household was asked if there is at least one household member who was engaged in cropping or/ and livestock during the agricultural year 2016/2017.the second phase consists of visiting agricultural household from listing, all of them were interviewed and records were taken using survey instruments.In this phase each sampled agricultural household is requested to provide information related to socio-economic characteristics of agricultural households, crop production, use of agricultural production, awareness of agriculture technology, government policies and programs, access to inputs, access to finance, agricultural assets and livestock numbers.
For AHS 2017 NISR employed 200 field workers 168 enumerators, 23 Team leaders at district level, 7 regional supervisors and 3 data editors. Training was provided to all fieldwork personnel on the data collection methodologies associated with the use of GPS household location and computer tablet questionnaires used for data collection. The computer assisted personal interviewing data collection method allowed for very fast and efficient uploading and transfer of the enumerated data from the field to NISR headquarters for processing. The tablet software instruments (electronic version of the paper questionnaires) allowed for instantaneous checking of the respondent data and automatically directed the enumerator questioning to reduce non-sampling errors within the data collection.

Listing questionnaire was used to list all households inside the segment
Agricultural household questionnaire was used to collect data in agricultural households and contained twelve sections: Section 0. general information
Section I: Household member's characteristics
Section II: land tenure and crops planted during agricultural year 2016-2017 agricultural year
Section III: extension services and agricultural programs in 2016-2017 agricultural year
Section IV: funding during 2016-2017 agricultural year
Section V: agricultural inputs during 2016-2017 agricultural year
Section VI: agricultural practices during 2016-2017 agricultural year
Section VII: agricultural tools during 2016-2017 agricultural year
Section VIII: Use of production, storage facilities and expenses on harvesting and storage during 2016-2017 agricultural year
Section IX: number of animals
Section X: animal's products and use
Section XI: animal inputs and services
Questionnaire design took into account the requests raised by major data users and stakeholders, it was developed in English then translated into Kinyarwanda for data collection, All the sections of the questionnaire were published in English.

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

At the bottom of the hierarchy, there are enumerators who would be assisted by a team leader. His/ her main function is to introduce the enumerators to the various key people from the sector to the villages leaders up to operators in the Secondary Sampling Unit (known as Segment), and assist enumerators during the whole course of the survey.
Responsibilities of a Team Leader is to manage the interviewers to ensure successful completion and quality of data collected in a given time period for the fieldwork. He/she was expected to record information about the fieldwork, which track the status of completion of the work in the field, document problems in the field and solutions taken to resolve these problems.
At the middle of the hierarchy, there are team leaders at regional level who assist district teams. Specifically, his/her tasks included: 1. Introduce the survey and interviewers at local level where the survey is administered. 2. Monitor and attend some interviews and make comments on the worker's performance. 3. Meet frequently with each member of the group to discuss, improve and organize work. 4. Check the availability of all the necessary items before going on field. 5. Help workers to solve the problems they encounter 6. Manage the team's work schedule 7. Communicate with NISR, regarding field issues, as necessary.
A higher-level supervision staff from NISR visited the field teams during each phase of data collection to ensure quality of data.