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<<Country>> Literacy Survey

Review Exercise (with answers)

Chapter 1 - Survey Overview

Circle the letter beside the correct answer or enter the correct response.

1. The <<Country Name>> Literacy Survey is being undertaken by

the << National Statistics Office>> of <<Country>> in partnership with

<<Partner>>.

2. The objectives of the <<Country>> Literacy Survey are to:

Obtain quality data on the distribution of the literacy skills of adults and young

people in <<Country>>.

Promote its effective use in formulating national policy, in monitoring and

evaluation of it’s programmes.

Design appropriate programme interventions to improve literacy levels.

Build national capacity in the measurement of literacy using survey

methodologies.

3. Define Literacy

Literacy is the information processing skills (referring to reading and writing)

necessary to use printed material commonly encountered at work, at home and

in the community.

4. An interviewer encounters a recent immigrant to <<Country>> who has difficulty in speaking English. An Interpreter may be used to assist in completing the Background Questionnaire (BQ) and the Filter Booklet.

a) True

b) False – An interpreter can only assist in completing the Background Questionnaire

(BQ).

<<Country>> Literacy Survey Page 1Review Exercise – with answers

Survey Overview, Continued


5. Who are the users of the data?

Policy makers – to plan national programs aimed at improving literacy skills

(including identifying best practices).

Local Officials – to enhance adult education and other literacy programs.

Mass Media – to inform the public about similarities and differences between <<Country>>

and other adult populations.

Business and education organizations – to better understand the skills of the labour

force and plan programs to address skill gaps.

6 The data will be shared with

the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIC), however the Statistics Act rules do

not permit the publication of any data at a personal level .

7 Respondents to the <<Country>> Literacy Survey should be assured that the

information collected is confidential which means that no one will be able to identify them

or their family based on the results of the survey.

8 If the respondent requests information on literacy programs you would provide him/her with

a) A list of literacy offices in the area

b) The ABC 1-800 number

c) <<National Statistics Office telephone number>>


Chapter 2 – Overview of the Interview


1. What sample frame does <<Country>> Literacy Survey use?

a) Census

b) Labour Force Survey

c) General Social Survey

d) None of the above

2. Who is the target population?

The target population for the <<Country>> Literacy Survey comprises usual

residents, aged 16 to 65, who are living in private housing units at the time of the

survey.

3. What parts of the population is excluded from this survey?

residents of Institutions (prisons, hospitals, etc.)

residents of senior homes

4. A case is deemed complete if it matches one of three scenarios. Describe the three scenarios.

Scenario 1 Scenario2 Scenario 3

Contact/Entry (complete) Contact/Entry (complete) Contact/Entry (complete)

Background Questionnaire (BQ) - (attempt at every question)



Filter Booklet (attempt at every question)



If the Filter Booklet score is 05 or less

If the Filter Booklet score is 06 to 15

If the Filter Booklet score is 16 or more

Locator Booklet (attempt atevery question)

Main Booklet (attempt at every question)

Reading Exercises (attemptat every question)

Reading Exercises (attemptat every question)

Exit (complete) Exit (complete) Exit (complete)


Overview of the Interview, Continued


5 John is a sixty year old <<Country>>n who has been living in Canada for the past three years. He recently returned to <<Country>> and is looking for an apartment to rent. Currently, he is temporarily staying at the selected dwelling since he has no other residence. He expects to be there for another week or two. John should be excluded form the list of household members and is not eligible for selection in the survey.

a) True

b) False - John is residing in the dwelling at the time of the survey and has no usual place

of residence elsewhere.

6. Below is a list of the usual residents of a selected household. How many household members are eligible to be selected for the survey? 4 – household members aged 16 to 65

Name Age Sex

Gus Smith 70 M

Aileen Smith 65 F

David Smith 45 M

Brian Smith 40 M

Douglas Smith 38 M

Joanne Smith 15 F

Charlie Smith 15 M


Chapter 3 - Survey Sections


1. List all the sections of the survey.

1. Contact/Entry (Household Questionnaire)

2. Background Questionnaire (BQ)

3. Filter Booklet

4. Locator or Main Booklet

5. Reading Exercises

6. Exit

2.. All respondents will be administered the Contact/Entry (Household Questionnaire), Background Questionnaire (BQ), the Filter Booklet, Locator Booklet and the Exit.

a) True

b) False –All respondents will be administered the Contact/Entry (Household

Questionnaire), Background Questionnaire (BQ), Filter and Exit.

3. The scoring of the Filter Booklet is completed

a) immediately after the respondent has completed the Filter Booklet

b) after each item is attempted by the respondent

c) after you have left the respondent’s home

4. The Main Booklet will be administered to respondents who score 16 or less on the Filter Booklet. a) True

b) False –The Main Booklet will be administered to respondents who score 16 or more on

the Filter Booklet.

5. The scoring of the Locator or Main Booklet is completed

a) immediately after the respondent has completed the booklet

b) after you have left the respondent’s home

c) in <<Head Office>>


Survey Sections, Continued


6. What are the interview steps applied when the respondent has been identified with a score of 06 to 15 in the Filter Booklet?

1. Administer the Contact (Household Questionnaire)

2. Administer the Entry (Selected respondent)

3. Administer the Background Questionnaire (BQ)

4. Administer the Filter Booklet

5. Score the Filter Booklet

6. Administer the Locator Booklet

7. Administer the PPVT Exercise

8. Record the PPVT Exercise

9. Administer the RAN Exercise

10. Administer the TOWRE Exercise

11. Administer the Digit Span Forward/Backward Exercise

12. Record the Digit Span Forward/Backward Exercise

13. Administer the Spelling Exercise

14. Administer the Exit

15. Review Work for Completeness, Accuracy and Legibility

16. Assign a Final Status Code

17. Return documents to the <<National Statistics Office>> of <<Country>>


Survey Sections, Continued


7. List the sections in the Background Questionnaire (BQ).

Section A: General Information

Section B: Linguistic Information

Section C: Parental Information

Section D: Labour Force Activity

Section E: Literacy and Numeracy Practices at Work

Section F: Participation in Education and Learning

Section G: Literacy and Numeracy Practices Generally, Social Capital and Well Being

Section H: ICTL - Information and Communication Technology Literacy

Section K: Household Information and Income

8. List all the Reading Exercises.

PPVT – Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

RAN – Rapid Automatized Naming

TOWRE – Test of Word Reading Efficiency

Digit Span Forward/Backward

Spelling

9. Which Reading Exercises are tape recorded? (Mark all that apply)

1. PPVT Exercise

2. RAN

3. TOWRE – Test of Word Reading Efficiency

4. Digit Span Forward/Backward

5. Spelling Exercise

10. Reading Exercises will be administered to respondents with a score of 05 or less only.

a) True

b) False – Reading Exercises will be administered to respondents with a score of 05 or

less, and 06 to 15 in the Filter Booklet.


Chapter 4 – Schedules and Supplies


1. Which of the following items should not be enclosed in the Respondent Envelope (Mark all that apply):

a) Administration Guide for Interviewers

b) Background Questionnaire (BQ)

c) Locator Booklet

d) PPVT Notebook – Shortened Version

2. What is the purpose of the Step-by-Step Instructions for the administration of the Assessment Booklets for Interviewers?

The Step-by-Step Instructions for the administration of the Assessment Booklets for Interviewers is used by Interviewers at every interview.

It provides detailed instructions on how to administer all questionnaires and exercises,

as well as instructions that you must read to the respondent. You must carry it with

you at all times.

3. The Assignment Control List (ACL) is used by Interviewers to manage cases.

a) True

b) False

4. The Background Questionnaire (BQ) response card is shown to the respondent during the administration of the Background Questionnaire (BQ).

a) True

b) False

5. What is the purpose of the Respondent Envelope Checklist?

The Respondent Envelope Checklist is used by Interviewers, Seniors and <<Head

Office>> to record/account for all contents of the Respondent Envelope.

6. The Progress and Cost Report must be submitted every Monday to your Supervisor or <<Head Office>>.

a) True

b) False


Chapter 5 – Survey Procedures


1. You visit the selected dwelling and no one is home. What do you do?

1. Leave a Notice of Visit Card

2. Record any information obtained on the Background Questionnaire (BQ)

3. Try again

2. Why is it important to contact all selected dwellings in the first week of collection?

Try to contact all your selected dwellings in the first week of data collection so that all

non-response cases can be identified early.

3. If the interview is interrupted during the Filter Booklet and you must leave the respondent’s home, you can return at a later date to continue the interview.

a) True

b) False – If the interview is interrupted during the Filter, Locator, Main, and/or

Reading Exercises, you are not allowed to return to continue the interview.

4. The Interviewer’s Manual contains all the instructions for administering the Contact (Entry), Household Questionnaire, Background Questionnaire (BQ), Locator or Main Booklet, Reading Exercises and the Exit.

a) True

b) False – This is the purpose of the Administration Guide for Interviewers.

5. Update your Assignment Control List (ACL) at the end of collection.

a) True

b) False – Update your Assignment Control List (ACL) throughout collection.

6. A supervisor will monitor the interviewer’s work during the survey period.

a) True

b) False


Chapter 6 – The Contact


1. What is the purpose of the initial contact?

1. Interviewer Introduction

2. Contact Information – list address and telephone number of household

3. Roster Household

4. Demographic Information – collect basic information such as age, marital status,

relationship to head of household, and sex

5. Respondent Eligibility and Selection

2. Why is age a mandatory item?

Age determines whether the respondent will be eligible for the survey.

3. If the respondent does not know the age of another member of the household, what do you do?

Probe to determine if the household member qualifies, ie. between the age of 16 and 65.

4. Describe the steps for selecting a respondent

1. Roster and determine the eligibility of all household members, ie. 16 to 65

2. Assign a listing number to all eligible household members

3. Select a person to interview using the Person Selection Grid

5. A person who usually lives at a selected dwelling but is expected to be away for the duration of the survey should be excluded from the list of household members since it will not be possible to obtain an interview with such a person.

a) True

b) False – An attempt should be made with selected respondent.

6. To be included on the household list for a selected household, a person must either regard the dwelling as his/her usual place of residence or reside in the dwelling at the time of the survey and have no usual place of residence elsewhere.

a) True

b) False


Chapter 7 – The Background Questionnaire (BQ)


1. The Background Questionnaire (BQ) is administered to all selected respondents after the Contact/Entry is completed.

a) True

b) False

2. Is it mandatory that you and the respondent use a 2B pencils?

Yes. These pencils are optimal for the scanners used in <<Head Office>> processing.

3. You are conducting an interview on November 12, 2012. Please fill out the Interviewer Check Item below. The Interviewer Check Item is located on Page 4 of the Background Questionnaire (BQ), page 4.

INTERVIEWER CHECK ITEM

Calculate the 12 months before this interview and enter the information below:

From: <November 2011> To: <October 2012>

Note: ‘from: Month/Year to: Month/Year corresponds to the 12 months prior to the interview. For example, if the interview takes place in September 2012, then the fills would be from September 2011 to August 2012.

4. If a question in the Background Questionnaire (BQ) contains a ‘Go to’ instruction, then, in order to help ensure that you proceed to the appropriate place in the questionnaire, you should always draw a circle around the ‘Go to’ instruction corresponding to the response entry.

a) True

b) False

5. Main job refers to the job that yields the highest income.

a) True

b) False - Main job = the greatest number of hours per week. Main job has

nothing to do with which job yields the highest income, which job involves the

most weeks per year or which job was held the longest.


The Background Questionnaire (BQ), Continued


6. Andrew completed his Secondary School programme and is currently taking a course at College towards a diploma in ‘Computer Sciences’. Which category would you mark in Questions A4 ‘What is the highest level of education that you have ever completed

1. Pre-primary or primary

2. Lower/Junior Secondary (Forms 1-3) /Senior Primary

3. Upper Secondary (Forms 4 & 5)

4. Post secondary, non-tertiary (certificate, diploma or associate degree)

5. Tertiary level, general degree courses

6. Tertiary level, technical or vocational degree courses

7. Doctorate level programmes

7. Julia indicates that she worked for 7 months and was on maternity leave for the rest of the year. How should she respond to the following question?

Did you work at a job or business for pay or profit at any time in the last 12 months, that is from <month and year> to <month and year>, regardless of the number of hours per week?

a) Yes – Please include as work time off for vacation, illness, maternity/paternity leave,

strikes and lockouts.

b) No

8. ‘Working at a job or business’ means any activity carried out by the respondent for pay or profit and includes ‘payment in kind’ (payment in goods or services rather than money).

9. For the past 12 months, Jeff has been enrolled in a college degree programme. During the first college semester, he completed five courses as a full-time student. After the first semester, he needed to get a part-time job to help pay his college expenses. For the next two semesters he worked part-time and was enrolled at the college as a part-time student. During these last eight months, he completed another five courses, giving him the equivalent of a full-time student. For questions F6 ‘Were you mostly a full-time or part-time student? What should be entered?

a) Mostly full-time

b) Mostly part-time

c) Both full-time and part-time equally


Chapter 8 – Description of Booklets


1. If an interruption has occurred (e.g. family emergency) and you must leave the respondent’s home, you can return to complete the interview provided that the interruption occurred:

a) During the Background Questionnaire (BQ)

b) Before the Filter Booklet is started

c) Before the Locator or Main Booklet

d) (a) and (b)

2. If the respondent is having difficulty with a question, you should:

a) Tell him/her that time is up

b) Allow him/her to take as much time as needed to complete the item.

c) Suggest they move on to the next question (they can return to the skipped

question later)


3. You may help a respondent complete the Filter Booklet, Locator or Main Booklet.

a) True

b) False

4. A respondent finds the question too difficult. What do you do?

Encourage him/her to take a look at the other questions that he/she may find easier to

solve. Tell him/her that he/she may return to unsolved questions later on. Remind the

respondent that his/her results will be evaluated anonymously and that performance

will have absolutely no negative consequences for him/her. Results of this kind are

very important for the survey.

5. A respondent refuses to continue working on the Booklets after intervention has occurred. What do you do?

Record when the respondent stopped working on the booklet on the Interviewer

Observation Note (ie. specify the Booklet, the question and the reason for stopping).


Chapter 9 – The Filter Booklet


1. The Filter Booklet is administered to all selected respondent once the Background Questionnaire (BQ) is complete

a) True

b) False

2. The Filter Booklet can be administered after the Locator Booklet.

a) True

b) False

3.. There is a 30 minute time limit for completing the Filter Booklet.

a) True

b) False

There is no time limit for completing the Filter, Locator or Main Booklet. Allow the

respondent all the time required. You may encounter cases where it is obvious that the

respondent cannot answer the question but is reluctant to give up. In such cases it is

appropriate to suggest that the respondent try another question and return to the one

which is causing difficulty later in the interview.

4. Why do you need to be seated at an angle that allows you to see the respondent’s answers, yet does not allow the respondent to see you scoring the Filter Booklet?

Scoring must be transparent to the respondent.

5. In administering the Filter Booklet you are required to read the Filter Booklet questions to the respondent.

a) True

b) False


Chapter 10 – The Locator or Main Booklet


1. How do you determine whether the respondent gets the Locator or Main Booklet?

1. If the respondent scores 16 or more on the Filter Booklet he/she is administered

the Main Booklet.

2. If the respondent scores 06 to 15 on the Filter Booklet he/she is administered

the Locator Booklet.

3. If the respondent scores 05 or less on the Filter Booklet he/she is not administered

the Locator or Main Booklet.

2. The scoring of the Locator and Main Booklet is done by the Interviewer.

a) True

b) False - Scoring of the Locator or Main Booklet is done at <<Head Office>>.

3. If a respondent has a mental or physical state of health that prevents him/her from completing the Locator or Main Booklet, you can assist the respondent by reading the Main Booklet questions to the respondent.

a) True

b) False


Chapter 11 – The Reading Exercises


1. The respondent is asking questions during the Reading Exercises. What should you do?

Remind the respondent that you can’t talk during the exercises. Ask the respondent to

hold any questions or comments until the end of each section.

2. The tape recorder malfunctions during the Digit Span Forward Exercise. What do you do?

1. You apologize.

2. You record the interruption on the Interview Observation Notes ‘Digit Span

Forward exercise interrupted due to technical difficulty. The tape recorder

Malfunctioned’.

3. You record the Outcome code for Digit Span Forward on the Background

Questionnaire (BQ) as 95 (Technical Difficulty).

4. You administer the exit and end the interview.


Chapter 12 – Outcome Codes


1. Indicate the final outcome code to be used for the case beside each description.

a) 20 The selected respondent is not at home for the entire survey period.

b) 40 All household members are over the age of 65.

c) 90 An interview is prevented due to illness of the selected respondent.

2. Owing to language difficulties, a respondent was unable to complete the Background Questionnaire or attempt any of the Filter Booklet. What is the final outcome code for the case?

a) Code 90

b) Code 71 – Partially completed

c) Code 22 - this is the outcome code for the Background Questionnaire (BQ).

3. The respondent completes the Background Questionnaire (BQ). He attempts all items on the Filter Booklet. He refuses to attempt any of the items in the Locator Booklet. Record the outcome code for the Locator Booklet on the line below.

80

4. You administer the Background Questionnaire (BQ) to the respondent but, owing to a physical disability, she is not able to attempt the Filter booklet. What steps would you take to have the case coded appropriately?

Specify the reason for ending the interview (Physical disability) on the Interviewer

Observation Note and record the final outcome code as 92 (Interview prevented due to

respondent’s mental or physical condition) on the Background Questionnaire (BQ).

5. The respondent has a severe hearing impairment. You should:

a) End the interview and record Code 80 (refused) as the Final Outcome code

b) Attempt the interview

c) End the interview and record Code 92 (Interview prevented – respondent’s

mental or physical condition) as the Final Outcome code.



Chapter 13 – Maintaining Response


1. If the respondent is reluctant to participate and asks questions regarding the survey which document should you refer to? (Mark all that apply.)

a) Review Exercise

b) Interviewer’s Manual

c) Exercise to Minimize Non-response

d) Reference Card

2. List 2 suggestions for minimizing non-interviews.

1. Organize your assignment so that at least one call has been made to each selected

respondent in the first week of collection.

2. When trying to contact households, visit at different times of the day or evening.


Chapter 14 – Reports


1. What is the objective of the Non-Interview Report?

The objective is to record any action taken to complete the interview.

Chapter 15 – Reporting and Monitoring Cost and Progress


1. What is the purpose of the Interviewer’s Progress and Cost Report?

This form is used to summarize progress and all costs associated with the survey.

2. How often is the Interviewer’s Progress and Cost Report prepared?

Weekly

Every Monday morning the Interviewer must contact their Supervisor and report the

Information they have recorded on the Interviewer’s Progress and Cost Report.


Chapter 16 – Delivery of Survey Documents


1. All deliveries of completed survey documents are to be accompanied by the <<Country>> Literacy Survey Transmittal Form.

a) True

b) False

2. Interviewer must send completed survey documents to Supervisors/<<Head Office>> every Friday during data collection.

a) True

b) False – Every Monday

3. Before sending survey documents to your Supervisor/<<Head Office>> what must you do?

1. Ensure that all documents recorded on the Respondent Envelope Checklist are

enclosed in the Respondent Envelope

2. Check that there is a Respondent Envelope for each Respondent ID listed on the

Transmittal Form.

3. Deliver the Respondent Envelopes with the Transmittal Form to <<Head

Office>> every Monday during data collection.

Chapter 17 – Debriefing Report


1. When do you complete the Field staff’s Debriefing Questionnaire?

Complete the Field Staff’s Debriefing Questionnaire within one week one week after the end of the data collection phase of the actual survey.
