Questionnaires

Questionnaires' type

Two questionnaires were administered in the FTP. The first was to the prime-age sample, and the second to a subsample of their parents (mostly elderly). In both cases the same questionnaire was used for both male and female respondents (though there were some differences in skip patterns across the respondents' gender).

The two questionnaires were designed to allow exploring the resource flows depicted in the figure below.

First, the questionnaire administered to the prime-age sample (the "son/daughter questionnaire") examines resource flows along four different routes, between respondents and each of their surviving:
1. parents;
2. uncles and aunts;
3. brothers and sisters;
4. children (10 years old or more).

The questionnaire administered to the parents of the prime-age sample respondents examines resource flows between the parents and:
5. the main respondents (the same relationship as (1) but from the parents’ perspective);
6. their other children (the son/daughter respondents’ siblings);
7. their brothers and sisters.

 

Questionnaire Development

Final versions of the English-version questionnaire drew on:

(a) qualitative work conducted in the research areas, and

(b) questionnaires used in previous rounds of both the KDICP and MDICP.

The former included structured qualitative work that was done prior to the main survey (a report of the preliminary fieldtesting of the questionnaire is available).

The English-version questionnaire was translated into and administered in the local language (Chichewa and Tumbuka) by a pair of supervisors who had first been trained by the PIs with respect to the objectives of the project and the meanings of the questions over the period of several days, and who had constant access to the PIs for clarification of a question's interpretation.Their translation was then critiqued and back-translated into English by senior associates of the project who were native speakers of the vernacular. Modifications were then made based on negotiations between the original pair and the senior associate.

Download

The English version of the male questionnaires administered to the prime-age sample and their parents can be downloaded in .pdf format below. Contact the project PIs if you would like versions of the questionnaires in the vernacular (Chichewa and Tumbuka).

• Male questionnaire - Prime-age sample
• Male questionnaire - Parents

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last updated September 18, 2003

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