Interviewers. (Part-time) will, whenever applicable, receive fringe benefits in a manner consistent with law.
Interviewers. This type of social recruitment was slower, so we decided that Sveta would also conduct interviews. In January I also hired Xxx, the unemployed 29 year old daughter of a friend, to help with transcription. She also ended up doing some interviews on her own. Sveta and Xxx used the interview guide I had developed. Below is a list of selected questions from the guide. I encouraged Sveta and Xxx to approach each interview as a conversation, allowing it to flow naturally. They were familiar with my flexible style of questioning from their transcription work. Not every question was asked in every interview and often we asked new questions. Each of us had a unique interview style. I would not have asked some of the questions the way Sveta and Xxx did, and I am sure they cringed at the all-too-frequent moments in my interviews when it is clear that I have not understood something or am having trouble phrasing a question. In Sveta’s and Ira’s interviews the Russian language is not an issue. Interviewees use idioms and cultural references freely. The exchanges reveal common assumptions that Russians, even of different generations, have about life. I was more apt to interrogate these: “What do you mean by ‘simple people’?” “When someone says ‘nobody needs that person’, what kind of person might she be referring to?” Sveta’s interest and knowledge in the area of politics is evident, although it is not always shared by her interviewees. My own questions about health fall painfully flat most of the time. I gave up asking them after awhile. Xxx, by contrast, is not a trained social scientist and her interviews are more tentative and halting but also less encumbered. Her interviewees tell stories without worrying about how to describe their lives to a social scientist. She interviewed a close relative, a friend of her mother’s and two neighbors. Sociodemographics How old are you? Where do you live now? Childhood Can you tell me a little about your family? What are your earliest childhood memories?
Interviewers. The field supervisors and interviewers were all female, and were either already on staff or expressly hired for the survey. All spoke the native Mayan language of the municipality in which they would work. Table 4 - Supervisors and interviewers by municipality Municipality No. of Supervisors No. of Interviewers San Sebastian Coatán 5 10 San Xxxxxx de Acatán 6 12 Santa Xxxxxxx 9 14 Total 20 36 Main criteria to select Supervisors/Interviewers: Professional in social areas, such as auxiliary nurse, primary school teacher, bookkeeper, etc. Native (first language) speaker of one of the three local languages (Akateko, Chuj, or Q’anjobal) Female Some experience in health or education Available for the required time period Responsible, punctual Successful interview with selection committee of Curamericas Guatemala project staff, inquiring their experience with community work and testing their knowledge of the local language. Current compatible CV Training sessions were conducted in Spanish by a Curamericas Global staff, from May 26 -30, 2015 at the Curamericas Guatemala headquarters in Calhuitz, San Sebastian Coatán (see Appendix D). The training included the seven data management support technicians as well as the supervisors and interviewers. Interviewers, supervisors, and data technicians learned the purpose of the project; acquired an understanding of the project indicators and corresponding KPC questions; and learned and practiced both in the workshop and in the field (in communities not included in the sample) proper interviewing and anthropometry techniques (weighing and measuring the lenght of children). The training included workshops in which the interviewers and supervisors – all native speakers of the three Mayan languages involved – reached consensus on the proper translation of interview questions and answer options from Spanish to the Mayan language (Chuj, Akateko, or Q’anjobal). Training included a day in the field where interviewers each conducted 4 or 5 interviews – including weighing and measuring length - observed and evaluated by a supervisor. Supervisors utilized a quality control checklist of these techniques to ensure that the necessary skills were acquired before the interviewers were allowed to begin the actual survey (see Appendix B). Anthropometry skills were assessed for both precision and accuracy. Improvements in translation were made incorporating the field work experience. Training in Epi Info 7.1 and data managemen...
