Following first data manager training (remote), onsite data manager training was conducted at SRO, UMICH. Members of the NDIC team, Santanu Pramanik, Dinesh Tiwari, Manjistha Banerji, Bijay Chouhan, Neerad Deshmukh and Jaya Koti attended this training. Training covered an introduction to surveytrak/blaise based survey data collection environments and advanced information about the various servers, applications, and databases used in surveys. The training also covered in-depth training on different data table and their management and use, generation of sample line and its project life cycle till project close out.
NDIC has organised Blaise 5 Training held at NCAER during October 29, 2018 – November 2, 2018. This five days training was conducted by Mr R.J.M. (Ralph) Dolmans Statistics Netherlands (CBS) along with supply of Blaise 5 software and course materials. The purpose to make participant learn the language and have a basic knowledge of how the layout part of the system works. The training outline is mentioned below.
• Blaise Basics – contains the language and a few extra things, e.g. how to apply layout to a questionnaire
• Blaise 5 for Blaise 4 developers – presents few topics those are not handled in the Blaise Basic course
• Manipula – this is the system where you can do things with the collected data – for instance convert it to text/xml/SAS/SPSS/Stata, or create subsets with part of the data (e.g. only the males, or the data from a specific province or city) etc.
In our CAPI based experiments of NDIC, Blaise 5 software is being used. So, it is considered to be a valuable learning. There is perceptible transition towards Blaise platform in near future and NCAER-NDIC may be the nodal point for pan India expansion.
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In conjunction with the launch of the project couple of remote (video) session were conducted specifically for data managers but were participated by NDIC research team too to get acclimatize with survey data collection environment and related data management system and tasks. Training session was imparted by Chris and Jonathan (Data managers) from Survey Research Operations (SRO), UMICH.
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Yu-Chieh Lin (Jay), Survey Research Operations (SRO), UMICH visited NCAER to have debriefing, meeting and training sessions with NDIC Team to introduce SRO survey data collection systems, plan out next forward steps to adopt SRO CAPI based survey data collection systems.
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