Abstract

The success of every survey or census undertaking depends heavily on the extent of participation given by respondents. Unfortunately, refusals or the non-participation of households during enumeration remain to be the most common problem during data collection especially in urban high-income areas. The project developed and piloted alternative approaches for the collection of census and survey data in urban high-income households. The project conducted several activities in order to improve the response rates in urban high-income areas. These were the following: (a) Conducted focus group discussions in order to identify the reasons why households in urban high-income areas are hesitant to be interviewed during censuses and sample surveys conducted by NSO; (b) Developed survey instruments that will improve the response rates in urban high-income areas; (c) Tested the practicability, acceptability, and effectiveness of using a web-based questionnaire; and (d) determined the affordable and practicable information dissemination strategies or survey publicity campaign strategies.