Mobile Surveyor

A Windows PDA/Mobile based survey Software for easy, fast and error free data collection

Process Flow

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Advantages

Capturing of Data/Information directly from the field in electronic form. (No separate coding and data entry is required)

Reduce the total survey and data collection time (ready for analysis) to one- third (by eliminating the Survey Information Coding and Data Entry Time required for traditional manual method).

Elimination of Stationery and Data Entry Cost.

Collected data is converted to formats to be readily used by SPSS application.

Facilitate monitoring of every day’s survey information (collected data) of individual surveyor from a central location.

Better quality of survey data by applying skip logic, data validation rules etc.

Facility of quick implementation of Modified/Redesigned/New set of Questioner without additional cost of stationery and additional time for printing and distribution of questionnaire.

Can handle different sets of questionnaire for different locations e.g. Upazilla in the same round of survey.

Process Flow (Contd.)

1 Prepare Questionnaire at Head office

Features

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Different types of Question

Both Bengali and English

Validation

Adding Instruction for Data Collector

Skip Logic

Options for taking ‘Other Answer’

SPSS Variable

Click on Following Links 1 by 1

Click here for NextDirect to PDA Section

Question Types

Click Here

Language

Click Here

Validation

Click Here

Comment / Instruction for Data Collector

Click Here

Skip Logic

Click Here

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2 Upload prepared Questionnaire to Web Server

Features

Round wise Question Upload

New Section can be included even after uploading the

questionnaire once

Web service based data Transfer that enables easy access to the Updated Questionnaire

Process Flow (Contd.)

Download Questionnaire from Web to Laptop at Field Level

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Process Flow (Contd.)

Download Questionnaire from Laptop to PDA for Data Collector

Features

Round wise Question Upload

User Wise Question Upload

Location wise Question Upload

Only one Questionnaire can be uploaded to PDA at a given time

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PDA Software detail

Log In Household Identification

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Section Selection

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Is Repetitive ?yes

no

Add Members

Answer Questions

Finish Member

Add Another?

yes

no Finish Section

Answer Questions

Finish Household

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1. Log In

List of Existing Household

To Create a new Household

Survey Name

Round Name

Log in Screen

After Successful Log in

Monitoring Officer

CLICK HERE

2. Household Identification

Household Code

Date of Visit

GPS Information

Free Text field for writing comment

Location Information

CLICK HERE

3. Section Selection

List of Sections for selected household.

Q&A Language Selection

CLICK HERE

Questions

Question Navigation

Bar Other Answer Field

Multiple Choice Single Answer

Multiple Choice Multi Answer

Numerical Answer

Matrix one answer per row

Text answer

Date Time answer

Question Types

Missing Answer

Instruction Info

View Bengali Version

Click here for Next

Question Types (Bengali)

Multiple Choice Single Answer

Matrix one answer per row

Numerical Answer

Date Time answer

Text answerMultiple Choice Multi Answer

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5Upload Collected answers from PDA to Laptop

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Features

Household wise Answer Upload

Rigorous Data Validation process to ensure–

No Data Duplication No Data Loss Data Integrity

Incremental Data Uploading Process

Upload answers Data from Laptop to Web

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7Download answers from web to Head office

Features

Household wise Answer Download

Rigorous Data Validation process to ensure–

No Data Duplication No Data Loss Data Integrity

Incremental Data Downloading Process

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8Transfer Data to SPSS Software for analysis

Features

SPSS Data Transfer in three steps.

Section wise Data Transfer to SPSS.

‘Not Applicable’, ‘Missing Answers’ and ‘Other Answers’ are transferred to SPSS

Combination of Different Section for viewing Data at a glance