Nigeria - National Nutrition and Health Survey 2014, Second round
Reference ID | NGA-NBS-NNHS-2014-v1.0 |
Year | 2014 |
Country | Nigeria |
Producer(s) | National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) - Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) |
Sponsor(s) | United Nations Children’s Fund - UNICEF - Funding Micronutrient Initiative - MI - Funding Nigeria's Saving One Million Lives Initiative - - Funding United State Agency International Development - USAID - Funding UKAID - - Funding |
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Created on | Dec 21, 2016 |
Last modified | Dec 21, 2016 |
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Data Collection
Data Collection Dates
Start | End | Cycle |
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2014-02-10 | 2014-05-05 | 85 days |
Time Periods
Start | End | Cycle |
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2014-05-15 | 12 Months |
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
The National nutrition and health survey conducted fieldwork from the 9th of February to the 5th of May 2014. After the first training, the data collection tools on tablets were field tested for one day.
The capacity of teams to use the tablets, to send the data to a central data bases and survey data quality were evaluated. As the data collection on tablets was accepted quickly by interviewer teams and data were complete and of good quality, the survey was approved for launch by the technical committee.
All teams in the northern training were assigned to complete data collection in the state of the training Katsina. This allowed close supervision of the teams by all supervision staff during the first week of training. After review of the data of Katsina state, the tools were cleared for use for the National Nutrition and Health Survey 2014.
The candidates were selected based on their experience in surveys and language skills in order to interview the respondents in their native language as much as possible. English language fluency was also required. At least 2 enumerators per team were be a female and all survey staff were required to wear culturally appropriate clothes. In the some parts of the country, it was decided to have all the 3 survey team members to be female in order not to be refused to approach households or concessions as men are not allowed to enter households to measure children and women.
Data Collectors
Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation |
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National Bureau of Statistics | NBS | Federal Government of Nigeria |
National Population Commission | NPopC | Federal Government of Nigeria |
Federal Ministry of Health | FMOH | Federal Government of Nigeria |
United Nations Children’s Fund | UNICEF | Federal Government of Nigeria |
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) the National Population Commission (NPopC), Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and UNICEF selected 108 persons to be involved in the survey. Of the 108 individuals, 99 constituted the survey teams and 9 individuals were assigned as standby to replace any interviewers who drop out during the data collection period. Of the 99 individuals, 81 of were assigned to 27 survey teams (3 individuals per team), 10 supervisors, 1 national coordinator, 1 assistant national coordinator, 2 technical coordinators and 4 regional coordinators.
The role of the supervisors were to coordinate the field work and other field activities such as management of the field teams, supplies and equipments, coordinate with locasl authorities concerning the survey. etc