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Interviewer Training

for Little Ripples Pre-School Evaluation

Nathan R. Jones, PhD

University of Wisconsin Survey Center

[email protected]

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What is going on in Darfur?

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What is going on in Darfur?

• Genocide – Sustained, systematic action

• Roots in ethnic struggle between African farmers and

Arabic herders

• Escalated in 2004 when Sudanese government began

supporting janjaweed militias

• Deaths from fighting and difficulties from displacement

estimated at 500,000

• Huge refugee flows within Sudan and surrounding countries

• 2 million IDP

• 300k in Chad

• 30k new this year

• Oil

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Chad

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Not an easy place to work

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Consensus meeting

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New arrivals

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Interviewer staff drawn from refugee population

Field plan…?

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• Sheik-driven snowball enumeration strategy

• No access to UNHCR records

• All children 3-5 eligible

• Bloc 6 was cleared, but 7 not confirmed by consensus

• N= ~120

Interviews

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Quality Control

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Seasoned team after two rounds of data collection

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