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Interviewer's Manual NATIONAL FAMILY HEALTH SURVEY 2005-2006 (NFHS-3), INDIA Interviewer’s Manual International Institute for Population Sciences Mumbai January 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION A. Survey Objectives..................................................................................................................1 B. NFHS-3 Sample.....................................................................................................................2 C. Survey Organization ..............................................................................................................3 D. Survey Questionnaires ..........................................................................................................3 E. Interviewer’s Role ..................................................................................................................5 F. Training of Interviewers..........................................................................................................5 G. Supervision of Interviewers ...................................................................................................6 H. NFHS-3 Regulations..............................................................................................................6 II. CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW A. Building Rapport with the Respondent...................................................................................8 B. Tips for Conducting the Interview ..........................................................................................9 C. Language of the Interview ...................................................................................................11 III. FIELDWORK PROCEDURES A. Preparatory Activities and Assignment Sheets....................................................................12 B. Contacting Households........................................................................................................15 C. Problems In Obtaining Women’s and Men’s Interviews ......................................................18 D. Making Callbacks.................................................................................................................18 E. Checking Completed Questionnaires ..................................................................................19 F. Returning Work Assignments...............................................................................................19 G. Data Quality.........................................................................................................................19 IV. GENERAL PROCEDURES FOR COMPLETING THE QUESTIONNAIRE A. Asking Questions.................................................................................................................20 B. Recording Responses..........................................................................................................20 C. Correcting Mistakes.............................................................................................................23 D. Following Instructions ..........................................................................................................23 E. Checking Completed Questionnaires ..................................................................................24 V. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONNAIRE A. Identification of Household on the Cover Page....................................................................25 B. Completing the Household Questionnaire ...........................................................................25 C. Selection of Woman for the Household Relations Section ..................................................40 D. Weight, Height, Anaemia and HIV Measurements. .............................................................41 E. Return to Cover Page ..........................................................................................................42 VI. WOMAN’S QUESTIONNAIRE A. Cover Page........................................................................................................................45 B. Section 1: Respondent’s Background.............................................................................45 C. Section 2: Reproduction .................................................................................................55 D. Section 3A: Marriage and Cohabitation ............................................................................67 E. Section 3B: Contraception ................................................................................................70 F. Section 3C: Contacts with Health Personnel....................................................................81 G. Section 4: Pregnancy, Delivery, Postnatal Care, and Children’s Nutrition ....................83 H. Section 5: Immunization, Health, and Women’s Nutrition..............................................94 I. Section 5A: Utilization of ICDS Services .......................................................................103 J. Section 6: Sexual Life .................................................................................................105 K. Section 7: Fertility Preferences...................................................................................108 L. Section 8: Husband’s Background and Woman’s Work .............................................112 M. Section 9: HIV/AIDS and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections ...............................116 N. Section 10: Household Relations..................................................................................120 O. Interviewer's Observations...............................................................................................126 P. Return to Household Questionnaire ................................................................................126 Q. Calendar ..........................................................................................................................126 ii VII. MAN’S QUESTIONNAIRE A. Introduction .....................................................................................................................134 B. Questions Only in the Man’s Questionnaire....................................................................134 APPENDIX A HINDU AND MUSLIM CALENDARS/FESTIVALS ..........................................138 APPENDIX B HEIGHT AND WEIGHT MEASURMENT .........................................................151 iii I. INTRODUCTION The 2005-2006 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) is a national sample survey designed to provide information on population, family planning, maternal and child health, child survival, AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), nutrition of children, women and men and women’s status in India. NFHS-3 will involve interviewing a randomly selected group of women who are between 15 and 49 years of age and men who are between 15 and 54 years of age. Women and men will be asked questions about their background, the children they have given birth to, their knowledge and use of family planning methods, the health of their children, AIDS and sexually transmissible diseases, and other information that will be helpful to policy-makers and administrators in health and family planning fields. You are being trained as an interviewer for NFHS-3. After the training course, which will take about four weeks to complete, you along with other interviewers who have been selected to implement NFHS-3, will be working in teams and going to different parts of the state to interview households and men and women in these households. This is called fieldwork. Depending on the areas assigned to your team and on how well you perform the tasks given to you, you may be working on NFHS-3 for up to three months. However, we have recruited more interviewers to participate in the training course than are needed to do the work, and at the end of the course, we will be selecting the best qualified among you to work as interviewers. Those not selected may be retained as alternates or data entry staff. During the training course, you will be listening to lectures about how to fill in the questionnaires correctly. You will also be conducting practice interviews with other trainees and with strangers. You will be given periodic tests, and the questionnaires that you complete will be edited to check for completeness and accuracy. You should study this manual and learn its contents since this will reduce the amount of time needed for training and will improve your chances of being selected as an interviewer. A. SURVEY OBJECTIVES India’s third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), like its predecessors, NFHS-1 (conducted in 1992-93) and NFHS-2 (conducted in 1998-99), will be conducted under the stewardship of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), Government of India (GOI), coordinated by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, and implemented by renowned survey organizations and Population Research Centres. Technical Assistance for NFHS-3 will again be provided by Macro International, USA. The overall objectives of the NFHS programme are: • To strengthen India’s demographic and health database by estimating reliable state- level and national-level indicators of population, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, and nutrition; • To facilitate evidence-based decision making in population, health and nutrition; • To strengthen the survey research capabilities of Indian institutions and to provide high quality data to policymakers, family welfare and health programme managers, government
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