Mobile Surveyor
A Windows PDA/Mobile based
survey Software for easy, fast and
error free data collection
Process Flow
Alt. Process Flow
Advantages
 Capturing of Data/Information directly from the field in electronic form. (No
separate coding and data entry is required)
 Reduce the total survey and data collection time (ready for analysis) to one- third
(by eliminating the Survey Information Coding and Data Entry Time required for traditional manual method).
 Elimination of Stationery and Data Entry Cost.
 Collected data is converted to formats to be readily used by SPSS
application.
 Facilitate monitoring of every day’s survey information (collected data) of
individual surveyor from a central location.
 Better quality of survey data by applying skip logic, data validation rules etc.
 Facility of quick implementation of Modified/Redesigned/New set of
Questioner without additional cost of stationery and additional time for printing
and distribution of questionnaire.
 Can handle different sets of questionnaire for different locations e.g.
Upazilla in the same round of survey.
Process Flow (Contd.)
1
Prepare Questionnaire at Head office
Click on Following Links 1 by 1
Features
Different types of Question
Both Bengali and English
Validation
Adding Instruction for Data
Collector
Skip Logic
Options for taking ‘Other
Answer’
SPSS Variable
Expand the Image
Direct to PDA Section
Click here for Next
Question Types
Click Here
Language
Click Here
Validation
Click Here
Comment / Instruction for Data Collector
Click Here
Skip Logic
Click Here
Process Flow (Contd.)
2
Upload prepared Questionnaire to Web Server
Features
Round wise Question Upload
New Section can be included
even after uploading the
questionnaire once
Web service based data
Transfer that enables easy
access to the Updated
Questionnaire
Process Flow (Contd.)
3 Download Questionnaire from Web to Laptop at Field Level
Process Flow (Contd.)
4 Download Questionnaire from Laptop to PDA for Data
Collector
Features
Round wise Question Upload
User Wise Question Upload
Location wise Question
Upload
Only one Questionnaire can
be uploaded to PDA at a given
time
PDA Software
detail
1
2
3
Log In
Household
Identification
Section Selection
6
5
4
Finish
Member
Answer
Questions
Add
Members
yes
Is Repetitive ?
no
Add
Another?
no
yes
5
7
Finish
Section
8
Finish
Household
Answer
Questions
1. Log In
Survey Name
Round Name
List of Existing
Household
Monitoring Officer
To Create a new
Household
After Successful Log in
Log in Screen
CLICK HERE
2. Household Identification
Location Information
Household Code
Date of Visit
GPS Information
Free Text field for writing
comment
CLICK HERE
3. Section Selection
Q&A Language Selection
List of Sections for selected
household.
CLICK HERE
Questions
View Bengali Version
Question Types
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Numerical Answer
Matrix one answer per row
Multiple Choice Multi Answer
Missing Answer
Date Time answer
Question
Navigation Bar
Instruction Info
Text answer
Other Answer
Field
Click here for Next
Question Types (Bengali)
Multiple Choice Single Answer
Numerical Answer
Matrix one answer per row
Multiple Choice Multi Answer
Date Time answer
Text answer
Process Flow (Contd.)
5 Upload Collected answers from PDA to Laptop
Process Flow (Contd.)
6
Upload answers Data from Laptop to Web
Features
Household wise Answer
Upload
Rigorous Data Validation
process to ensure–
 No Data Duplication
 No Data Loss
 Data Integrity
Incremental Data Uploading
Process
Process Flow (Contd.)
7 Download answers from web to Head office
Features
Household wise Answer
Download
Rigorous Data Validation
process to ensure–
 No Data Duplication
 No Data Loss
 Data Integrity
Incremental Data
Downloading Process
Process Flow (Contd.)
8
Transfer Data to SPSS Software for analysis
Features
SPSS Data Transfer in three
steps.
Section wise Data Transfer to
SPSS.
‘Not Applicable’, ‘Missing
Answers’ and ‘Other Answers’
are transferred to SPSS
Combination of Different
Section for viewing Data at a
glance