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Field surveys and interviews

Structured data collection from households, traders, farmers or programme participants, in the local language.

Price
Worked out for your brief, in the calculator
Turnaround
Quoted per sample size and geography
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Quoted against a written scope, and the work starts once payment is received. Or send the request straight away.

What this actually involves

Our researchers live in the regions they cover and interview in the language people actually speak: Luganda, Runyankole, Lusoga, Ateso, Acholi, Lugbara and others depending on the zone. Questionnaires are built with you, piloted, and administered on a phone with location and timestamp captured on every response, so you can see where and when each interview happened rather than trusting a spreadsheet.

What you receive

  • Clean dataset in the format your analysts want
  • Location and timestamp on every single response
  • Enumerator identity attached to each interview
  • Field notes on refusals, substitutions and anything that affects the sample

Who commissions this

  • NGOs and development programmes running baselines and endlines
  • Research institutions needing Ugandan fieldwork
  • Government and donor evaluations requiring an independent collector
  • Companies running customer or supplier research

How it runs

  1. 1We build the questionnaire with you and pilot it
  2. 2Researchers interview in the local language on a phone that records the location and time of every response
  3. 3You receive a clean dataset, with field notes on refusals and substitutions

What you provide

  • Your questionnaire, or the questions to build one from, and the languages spoken in each area
  • Who should be interviewed and how many: households, traders, farmers or participants
  • The format you want the data in, and any consent wording your study requires

Limits of this service

  • People can decline to take part. Refusals and substitutions are recorded, not hidden
  • Answers are what people told us. Where an answer can be seen, we note what was seen as well
  • The survey speaks for the sample agreed in the scope, not for places that were not sampled

Tell us where to go and what to confirm.

Send the location and the questions. We will come back with a fixed price, a named researcher and a date.

Field surveys and interviews in Uganda | Ground Insights Uganda