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
Process Flow (Contd.)
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
Process Flow (Contd.)
5Upload Collected answers from PDA to Laptop
Process Flow (Contd.)
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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
Process Flow (Contd.)
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
Process Flow (Contd.)
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