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| = Household Census Forms =
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| Household census forms can be general but they are of most use if they are adapted for your own purposes.
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| This example was prepared for use in India in the RECOUP project, which accounts for several of its specific features:
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| # There are more questions on schooling than you might need in a project with a different focus.
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| # The information on young men and women who have moved out of the household was necessary because one RECOUP sub-project wanted to interview parents and their children.
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| # Information on migrants was also important because RECOUP is concerned with the benefits of education: if young people used their skills to leave the community, we want to know about this .
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| # We wanted to know what it means to be poor in four different countries, so we tried to have similar questions about what people own. (It is not a good idea to ask about incomes, and asking about expenditures can take a lot of time. People are not always willing to list what they own either, but this is often less problematic.)
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| # We also wanted to collect better information about people with disability.
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| If at all possible, keep the census form to two pages overall, as it will be quick and easy to fill in the field. You will need a spare sheet anyway for households with more than 8 members. Try not to add more questions unless you are sure you want to know the answers: the extra information that has been collected may not be used. This is a rough and ready basic research tool with specific purposes - to provide a context and provide information for sampling, in particular - and it should not take a lot of time.
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| The data should be entered into a relational database such as Access to eventually provide a complete household listing and summary statistics etc. You do not need to use SPSS or another statistical package: the idea is not to carry out statistical tests but to be able to summarise key features of the community.
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| You should decide whether researchers should code in the field (see the final page for an example) or have the coding done after returning to the office.
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Singal, N., and Jeffery, R. (2008). Qualitative Research Skills Workshop: A Facilitator's Reference Manual, http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/RECOUP, Cambridge: RECOUP (Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, http://recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk/). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. (original page)
