Onojo Otowo’s Updates

Week 2 Assignment

Your assignment is to prepare an Update responding to five questions:

Q1. Given this information, what would be the overall sample size?

A1: 105,600

Q2. How many households would have to be visited?

A2: 621,177

Q3. What do you think of this estimated sample size?

A3: The estimated sample size is very large and require a lot of resources and teams to carry out the survey

Q4. How feasible will it be to conduct this survey?

A4: The survey will require enormous resources financially, human and logistics but could be done in phases. The results will likely have quality issues.

Q5. What are the trade-offs in terms of time, money, and quality of survey implementation?

A5: The trade-offs are how useful will the survey information going to be to Harmonia and do they have sufficient funds to carry out the survey in the 100 districts or do a national coverage survey
The survey can be carried out using the cluster sampling instead of estimating the coverages but classifying it by focusing on districts where major demographic or programmatic changes have occurred recently in Harmonia