Data Quality Issues

Savita

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AHL for ensuring coverage Enumerators asks questions and DEO enters Information read out to respondent before

saving Space for Enumerator’s Remarks Data Viewing Module at Charge Office Enumerator’s Abstract Data Viewing access to NIC server Supervisor Cross check Claims and Objections process Information in Public Domain

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1 year children reported to be Separated and Divorced

Children born in 2010/2011 reported to have ‘agriculture’ ‘labor’ as an occupation

Stomach pain reported as ‘other disability’

SC person entered as ST PTG with ‘other’ as caste Some households report only one SC

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Relationships written in absurd way – e.g. a household with Mother and Son – both reported as ‘never married’

PTG in states where there are no notified PTGs

Manual Scavenger is taken as either ‘open defecation’ or Safai Karmachari

No member with Salaried job .. But occupation is mentioned as Service

Legally Released Bonded Labor = Contractual annual labor?

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Land is owned by the respondent but the details of land are not provided.

Questions related to disability, caste, religion are asked in ‘bulk’ and not about individual members as is expected.

All 10 members have migrated outside EB – and side B is filled – who is the respondent?

No caste/tribe? Why so many in this particular EB have no caste/tribe?

No land and Kisan Credit Card?

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When the respondent said that ‘the laptop is in the shop’ – enumerator wrote ‘No’ to computer question. Any asset is household asset – whether in the house or not.

• Confusion about ‘Kisan Credit Card’ and ‘Credit Card’.

• Maid servant was neither enumerated as member of the household not as separate household.

• MoRD and HUPA officials enumerated on paper

• Acknowledgement receipt is not given to respondents

• PTG and LRBL with Landline, Refrigerator and 6 acres of land

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Household no 0001 Pakka house with 8 dwelling rooms and also PTG and Manual Scavenger, two members both illiterate, Refrigerator, 6 acres of land

HH 0001 (Government job) though PTG and Manual Scavenger and ST

Member 12: Born in 1928 and reported to have no disability

Member 10: Born in 2006 reported to be ‘Literate but below primary’. By definition children under 7 are to be treated as illiterate even if they can read and write.

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Almost all households have equal irrigated and un-irrigated land – is it the case? Or the same number is repeated in both the rows?

Woman reported to be son in law and separated

Double entry: as canvassed and not found Minor headed household? Both members are

born in 1990

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Enumerators not writing observations e.g. Mobile ringing in the house, Four wheeler in the entrance

Sometimes they are entering ‘correct’ data instead of writing remark

Consent and Public Domain – How is the question asked in the field?

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136/142 (0.55 and 0.57)

Un enumerated –

9,11,24,34,38,39, 41 to 44,

47, 49, 54,58,65,

70,72,83,91,92,98,

105,106,108, 113, 115 to

142,

3/142 (0.55) Enumerated

10, 12, 69

Enumerator Supervisor

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• Kajal born in 2011 – occupation is reported to be ‘labour’

• Main source of income is begging/charity/alms – but concrete house, 8 acres of land

• Manual scavenger with 12 acres of land

• 76 acres of land and main source of income is reported to be ‘manual casual labor’

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Two members (one male and one female) are SC, 3 members are ‘other’

Head of the household woman – ‘never married’ and her son is also member of the household

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