Tropical Cyclone GITA Impact Assessment 2018

There were 24 teams altogether, where each team consist of 7 members: 1 supervisor, 1 team leader and 5 enumerators.

It had a manager who plan and coordinates the whole work activities, from coordinating cluster meetings, to the from the survey design, to managing the data collection and processing and the producing of the result.

Supervisors were permanent staff of the Tongan Statistics Department, based at the main office and were responsible for monitoring their team's work performance and progress on the system; carrying out industry and occupation classiication; quality checks on submitted forms; providing support; and resolving unresolved matter arise in the field.

Team leader were the field work supervisor, who were out in the field with the interviewers. They were responsible for the planning of their own team's enumeration, updating the household list, contacting the village town officer of their teams starting date and duration of work. Most were also the drivers

The role of the supervisor was to coordinator field data collection activities, including management of the field teams, supplies and equipment, finances, maps and listings, coordinate with local authorities concerning the survey plan and make arrangements for accommodation and travel. Additionally, the field supervisor assigned the work to the interviewers, spot checked work, maintained field control documents, and sent completed questionnaires and progress reports to the central office.

The field editor was responsible for reviewing each questionnaire at the end of the day, checking for missed questions, skip errors, fields incorrectly completed, and checking for inconsistencies in the data. The field editor also observed interviews and conducted review sessions with interviewers.

Responsibilities of the supervisors and field editors are described in the Instructions for Supervisors and Field Editors, together with the different field controls that were in place to control the quality of the fieldwork.

Field visits were also made by a team of central staff on a periodic basis during fieldwork. The senior staff of GenCenStat also made 3 visits to field teams to provide support and to review progress.

2 teams were assigned in 'Eua.

1 permanent staff of the Tongan Statistics Department was assigned as Headquarter (manager) for supervision of all.

Eighteen field supervisors were assigned to a team of roughly five enumerators and one team leader to manage and supervise during the field work.