MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT STUDY II (MPAS II) Instrument, Instructions, and Sampling Guidelines Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 2 2 INSTRUCTIONS 2 2.1 RANDOM NUMBER TABLES 3 2.2 QUESTION BY QUESTION GUIDE 4 3 DESIGN 5 3.1 SURVEY VARIATIONS 5 3.1.1 V1: WHICH MP 5 3.1.2 V2 & V3: LIST EXPERIMENTS 5 3.1.3 V4: RESPONDENT’S GUESSES IN SECTION SCORECARD ELEMENTS (5.7.1) 5 3.1.4 V5: SMS YOUR MP 5 3.1.5 V6: GET YOUR MP OR LCV CHAIR’S CONTACTS 5 3.1.6 V7: SCORECARD TREATMENTS 5 4 SCRIPTS FOR BEHAVIORAL ELEMENTS 6 4.1 V5 SCORECARD MODULE 6 4.2 V6: SMS MODULE: SCRIPT: 7 4.3 V7: CONTACT YOUR MP OR LCV : SCRIPT 8 5 THE INSTRUMENT 13 5.1 IDENTIFIER INFORMATION [0.5 PAGE] 14 5.2 HOUSEHOLD SELECTION [1 PAGE] 15 5.3 RESPONDENT SELECTION PROCEDURE [1 PAGE] 16 5.4 RESPONDENT INFORMATION 17 5.4.1 DEMOGRAPHICS [1 PAGE] 17 5.4.2 WELFARE [3 PAGES] 18 5.4.3 COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [1 PAGE] 21 5.4.4 POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT [1PAGE] 22 5.5 POLITICS IN UGANDA [2 PAGES] 23 5.5.1 PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS 23 5.5.2 GENERAL POLITICAL ATTITUDES [2 PAGES] 25 5.5.3 POLITICAL PRIORITIES [1 PAGE] 27 5.5.4 ELECTORAL QUALITY I 28 5.5.5 V2, V3 ELECTORAL QUALITY II 28 5.5.6 V1: ABOUT YOUR SURVEYMP & LCV [3 PAGES] 29 5.6 SCORECARD 32 5.6.1 KNOWLEDGE OF THE SCORECARD [1.5 PAGES] 32 5.7 SCORECARD VARIATIONS 34 5.7.1 V4: SCORECARD ELEMENTS: SURVEY MP’S PERFORMANCE ON INDIVIDUAL ITEMS 34 5.7.2 V5: DELIVER SCORECARD RESULTS 36 5.8 FINAL QUESTIONS ON SURVEY MP [1 PAGE] 36 5.9 FINAL EXERCISES 37 5.9.1 V6: SMS YOUR MP 37 5.9.2 V7: GET YOUR MP OR LCVS PHONE NUMBER 37 5.10 POST SURVEY REFLECTIONS [1 PAGE] 38 5.11 HOUSEHOLD CONTACT INFORMATION FORM FOR FOLLOW-UP [0.5 PAGE] 39 6 CONTACT INFORMATION SLIP 39 1 1 Introduction Wilsken Agencies Ltd is completing this survey on behalf of Columbia University and DDP. The survey is meant to gauge political attitudes and behaviour in Uganda. The following is a guide to sampling, conducting interviews, and filling the instrument. You may also refer to your question-by-question guide. 2 Instructions Your responsibilities are: To accurately and completely record the responses you are given by the respondent. To ask every each respondent every question, except those indicated to be skipped. To read the questions exactly as they are written. To follow sampling guidelines. To refer to your supervisor if you encounter any problems. Research Involving Human Subjects This research involves human subjects. A person must agree to be interviewed and indicate their willing participation by giving consent. If someone does not agree to be interviewed you must end the interview immediately. All respondents have the right to refuse any question and to stop the interview at any time for any reason. In order to protect the answers of your respondent, conduct the interview in a semi-private or private place. There are no direct benefits to taking part in this survey (other than benefits from the exercises in which some subjects take part). There may be general gains in terms of providing knowledge that can improve relations of political accountability in Uganda. There are no risks either however and no identifiable information will be shared with any political or other entity outside the research team. You should be at all times clear about the benefits and risks and at no point should you imply that there are other benefits to taking part. Courtesy Treat each respondent with respect. Please read the introductory scripts and the smaller introductions to each section of the instrument to every respondent in order to guide them through the survey. Help the respondent to understand each question by repeating if necessary and using examples given in the question-by-question guide. Do not visibly react (laughing, shocked facial expressions) to any of the answers given. Marking Answers • No questions unanswered. The survey is designed such that when it is completed there will be no question for which there is no answer. Either one of the closed responses should be circled OR a code for “don’t know”, “not applicable” or “refused to answer” should be marked. There is no area of this survey where questions are simply skipped because they are irrelevant or for other reasons. And the first thing that the supervisors will check when they examine the surveys is that there is indeed some form of response written for every question. • In most cases the answers to questions are recorded by circling the corresponding code to the answer given. In order to mark the respondent’s answer, make a circle the number that corresponds to their choice. In a few other questions you are asked to write in a response; in almost all cases this will be either a number—such as a date—or it will be a code, signifying some response from a larger listing of possible responses. • Special responses. For all questions, -9 means “don’t know,” -8 means “not applicable” and -7 means “refused to answer.” • Adding Notes. Any time you do not have space, put an asterisk in the box, and at the bottom of the page, repeat the asterisk, note the question number, and write your longer description there. • In case of error. If you make a mistake or the respondent changes his or her mind, place an X next to the old circle and make a double circle around the correct response. 2 2.1 Random Number Tables Select 4 Households HHs 1 2 3 4 HHs 1 2 3 4 4 1 2 3 4 62 7 15 20 58 5 1 2 3 4 63 7 15 21 49 6 3 4 5 6 64 15 43 48 60 7 1 2 5 6 65 26 39 50 61 8 1 3 5 8 66 3 5 57 59 9 1 4 6 8 67 8 20 44 55 10 2 3 5 9 68 43 45 49 63 11 1 5 7 9 69 23 33 58 69 12 3 5 8 12 70 13 19 22 52 13 5 6 8 12 71 13 18 27 62 14 3 4 8 10 72 7 28 33 41 15 4 7 8 9 73 11 12 34 44 16 2 6 11 13 74 27 37 69 73 17 1 9 12 17 75 2 3 7 49 18 1 2 13 15 76 2 48 52 67 19 9 10 15 17 77 2 19 43 46 20 1 5 6 15 78 15 49 64 70 21 5 14 17 21 79 1 32 37 58 22 5 9 15 22 80 5 12 53 58 23 3 4 14 20 81 5 21 44 65 24 4 9 11 14 82 13 50 73 77 25 5 10 12 25 83 4 6 39 52 26 4 7 13 18 84 35 48 60 81 27 19 20 21 23 85 39 50 67 82 28 10 15 17 26 86 7 11 34 72 29 1 15 22 26 87 1 4 8 46 30 13 17 20 30 88 50 51 55 71 31 2 19 20 26 89 6 27 46 77 32 3 10 22 26 90 17 21 42 79 33 5 10 15 24 91 34 67 88 90 34 11 18 19 21 92 4 44 59 72 35 16 23 24 35 93 17 43 74 77 36 12 21 22 34 94 7 19 24 82 37 3 9 14 22 95 26 45 46 95 38 1 18 24 38 96 4 9 19 93 39 7 15 18 29 97 80 82 86 94 40 5 9 10 30 98 40 41 62 96 41 12 31 37 39 99 45 69 75 77 42 22 25 26 39 100 7 29 53 95 43 9 15 38 43 101 15 36 37 88 44 10 19 23 44 102 26 55 56 99 45 11 19 32 34 103 6 47 73 101 46 3 19 25 46 104 22 33 59 84 47 23 28 41 44 105 11 17 68 82 48 7 10 24 46 106 26 33 56 93 49 16 22 34 40 107 46 58 60 64 50 14 21 37 50 108 25 47 91 93 51 3 18 37 49 109 7 56 60 96 52 7 33 35 42 110 59 71 72 107 53 33 36 45 46 111 18 72 83 88 54 2 8 15 41 55 2 17 33 47 56 6 11 42 49 57 3 8 13 52 58 2 6 18 44 59 12 38 40 42 60 12 32 46 51 61 9 35 39 41 3 2.2 Question by Question Guide 4 3 Design 3.1 Survey Variations The survey involves a number of variations. For these variations different respondents are asked different questions or asked to perform different tasks. It is very important that for each subject you are clear exactly which questions they should be asked and what exercises they should be asked to undertake. Later key analyses are performed by comparing different types of subjects and the validity of analysis can be seriously threatened if the wrong questions are asked to subjects.