Summary

A description is presented of interviewing and other field work problems in a fertility and KAP survey among village women in East Pakistan. The female population studied had a very low literacy rate and no previous contact with social research.

In the survey described, village women were interviewed through the use of many standard questions concerning fertility and family planning. Inappropriate responses to these items were produced by the women. Many women misunderstood the questions or did not have the requisite information. This necessitated special explanations to respondents. One standard survey procedure which had to be modified in the field work was the maintenance of privacy in the interview situation.

Prior to the survey (which was done in conjunction with a pilot family planning project), an attempt was made to develop a corps of indigenous village data-collectors.

Resumen

Se presenta una deecripción de las entrevistas y otros problemas en el trabajo de campo en una encuesta de conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas (KAP) sobre fecundidad, entre mujeres de una aldea en Pakistan Este. La poblacion femenina estudiada tenía una elevada tasa de analfabetismo y no había tenido experiencia previa con la investigación social.

En la encuesta descrita, se entrevisto a las mujeres de la aldea usando muchas preguntas clásicas sobre fecundidad y planeamiento familiar. Ellas proporcionaron respuestas inadecuadas sobre estos tópicos. Muchas mujeres interpretaron mal las preguntas o no tenían la información que se les solicitaba. Fué necesario dar explicaciones especiales a las respondentes, Un procedimiento estandar de la encuesia, que tuvo que ser modificando en el campo, fué el mantenimiento de la privacidad durante la entrevista.

Antes de la encuesta (que fué realizada junto con un proyecto piloto de planeamiento familiar) se intentó organizar un grupo de nativos de la aldea que recolectaran información.

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