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interventions by CSJP (Market Research Services Report, November 2019). In the report

the firm outlined, the methodology used to conduct the survey, and highlighted some
of the key lessons learnt from respondents amongst the target group for Component I

(Parenting).

The data were collected by way of face-to-face interviews with both parents and children.
Interviews with parents were conducted in their homes while interviews with children were

conducted at the school, in keeping with the baseline methodology. There were many
steps leading eventually to the data collection stage. These included:

• A one-day training session that was conducted with interviewers. This allowed for
briefings on the questionnaire, role plays, and for explanations and/or clarification

where necessary.
• The training also included a pilot survey involving interviews with 10 parents. The

participants for the pilot were sourced independently by MRSL from a low-income
community, Kencot. MRSL contacted and arranged the interviews, which were

carried out in the respondents’ homes. The findings of the pilot were used to refine
the questionnaire that had been used to gather and record the data during data

collection, and to confirm the method to be used. Some of the key changes made
to the questionnaire were simplification of the language, addition of response

scales and adjustment to some of the response scales.
• Participants in the first follow up were also persons who participated in the baseline

survey. A list of such persons was generated and represented the basis on which
respondents were targeted.

• Participants were residents of KSA, St. Catherine, Clarendon, St. James, St. Mary
and Westmoreland.

• Electronic face-to-face interviewing was the method used to collect the data in
the field. A structured questionnaire was used for this specific purpose.

• All parents were required to sign an informed consent document to permit
participation by both themselves and their children, before they were allowed to

be interviewed.
• Data collection was supervised by two of MRSL’s Fieldwork Coordinators, one being

assigned to the KMA region and the other to the Western and Central regions.
These Coordinators had the responsibility of supervising the data collection to

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