Philippines - Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2015, Second Round GATS

Start	End	Cycle
2015-11-23	2015-12-23	N/A

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
For the 2015 Philippines GATS, PSA employed a total of 148 interviewers distributed to 81 teams nationwide. A team supervisor was responsible for one to three interviewers and ensured that the team strictly followed the protocol or the prescribed procedures in interviewing the sample household and the sample individual. In each province, a PSA field personnel was designated as Provincial Supervisor to monitor the progress of each team in his/her province and ascertain completion of the workload within the survey period. Regional Supervisors were assigned to supervise the conduct of the survey in their respective regions and provide technical assistance on survey concepts, questionnaire items and field operation procedures. A technical staff person from the PSA Regional/Provincial Office was designated to provide technical assistance on the use of the Android tablets. RDs, PSOs and members of the GATS team from the PSA Central Office also supervised the GATS interview teams.

There were no untoward incident during enumeration. Data transmission had some difficulty because there were no dedicated tablets for supevisors.

The survey was conducted using an electronic data collection device. At each address in the sample enumeration areas, Field Interviewers administered the Household Questionnaire to one adult who resides in the household. The purposes of the Household Questionnaire are to determine if the selected household meets GATS eligibility requirements and to make a list, or roster, of all eligible members of the household 15 years of age and older. Once a roster of eligible residents of the household is completed, one individua was randomly selected to complete the Individual Questionnaire.

The Individual Questionnaire asks questions about background characteristics; tobacco smoking; Electronic Tobacco and Waterpipes, smokeless tobacco; cessation; secondhand smoke; economics; media; knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions about tobacco; and cigarette packs.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Philippine Statistics Authority	PSA	National Economic and Development Authority

All supervisors conducted spot checks and short verification interviews. They also accomplished re-interviews while observing the conduct of the interviews by the FIs. The fieldwork for the 2015 Philippine GATS started on November 23, 2015 and was completed on December 23, 2015. Fieldwork included Saturdays (Sundays and holidays, if necessary). The enumeration was completed on time in all sample areas within the 27-day enumeration period. Output per day was pegged at 4-5 sample households, with an average of around 16 sample housing units and sample households in a sample area. On average, it took about 4-5 days for one interviewer to complete the fieldwork in an area of 15-18 sample housing units and sample households.

After the enumeration, a debriefing was held to discuss all observations made, particularly  problems encountered on the use of the handheld computer, issues and recommendations on  the  questionnaire content, the  wordings  of  questions  and  response  categories,  availability/attitude  of  the  respondents,  and  the  whole  field  operation  procedure.  All supervisors and observers submitted narrative reports on problems and issues encountered in  the field and their observations/comments/suggestions/recommendations.  The reports were consolidated per region and sent to the Central Office to serve as basis for the improvements of next survey round.