Young Lives Methods Guide Introducing Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing Page 1 Data

for the first two rounds of the Young Lives survey were collected using paper-based questionnaires. Once completed, the questionnaires were manually checked, entered and then re-entered into databases, cross-checked to highlight inconsistencies, cleaned and then transferred into data analysis software. Since the start of the study in 2002, various Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) options have become available for replacing much of this process with electronic data collection, which allows fieldworkers to go to research sites with questionnaires already loaded onto a laptop, notebook or personal digital assistant (PDA) onto which they can directly enter responses in a format that can be immediately uploaded into a database. This greatly increases the speed with which survey data can be accessed in a useable format, and means that some dat