Add more information on surveyor

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Hi,

Is there a way in ODK collect or ODK survey to add info (such as name, address, motivation for joining the survey etc.) that would be submitted as metadata? People, who would collect data for us are volunteers and this information would be nice to have, but annoying to fill in in each form since volunteers submit multiple observations.

Any solution for this?

Thanks,
Kristof Kelemen
Hungary

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Hi Kristof,

Why wouldn't you make a separate questionnaire for your enumerators that they would just fill once for all, make sure you can link this to your main survey questionnaire (ie have an ID for your enumerator in both questionnaire or something of the sort), and merge the two things for analysis if you need it ?

Regards,

Grégoire

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Hi,

Is there a way in ODK collect or ODK survey to add info (such as name, address, motivation for joining the survey etc.) that would be submitted as metadata? People, who would collect data for us are volunteers and this information would be nice to have, but annoying to fill in in each form since volunteers submit multiple observations.

Any solution for this?

Thanks,
Kristof Kelemen
Hungary

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If they do share devices and you don't mind using Survey you can fairly easily do this.

I would have as Gregoire said a seperate form, Surveyor_info. Each has to fill it once. They sync it to your server.

Then you'll have that Main_Form (could be many different forms actually). You can then use a linked_table query on a select_one_dropdown in your Main_form. That would be a "Who are you?" question and they select their name in it at the beginning of each form.

Then whenever you export your Main_Form, you'll have that field to link Surveyor's info and Main_Form.

You would need 2.0 transferts from Aggregate 1.4.4 though because that would imply to Sync the phones when you add a new guy to your team.

If you don't want to do this, then I have a simpler solution (say you can't use 2.0): keep your enumerators infos in a CSV file, Surveyor_info.csv. You place this file in each'phone Survey directory. At the beginning of each form, you have a csv query, have your select_one_dropdown with that query and you're good to do.

That's slightly less fancy because you have to manually update the CSV file. If you want to have those info coded into the form, I guess you could run a more complex query (or many simple queries) that uses the "assign" prompt to assign the infos to an address, phone_numnber, age, etc. variable. They woudln't have to enter it: the query would assign it from the csv each time.

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Kristof,

No need to have an enumerator ID. Have them fill out a registration
form that collects their device ID as metadata. Then make sure every
other form also collects that device ID. This assumes that enumerators
do not share devices.

Yaw

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On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Gregoire Lurton grlurton@uw.edu wrote:

Hi Kristof,

Why wouldn't you make a separate questionnaire for your enumerators that they would just fill once for all, make sure you can link this to your main survey questionnaire (ie have an ID for your enumerator in both questionnaire or something of the sort), and merge the two things for analysis if you need it ?

Regards,

Grégoire

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Hi,

Is there a way in ODK collect or ODK survey to add info (such as name, address, motivation for joining the survey etc.) that would be submitted as metadata? People, who would collect data for us are volunteers and this information would be nice to have, but annoying to fill in in each form since volunteers submit multiple observations.

Any solution for this?

Thanks,
Kristof Kelemen
Hungary

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thank you all for your answers!