Questionnaires
This Page contains the questionnaires prepared for purposes of data collection, including the Participatory Resource Mapping (PRM) exercise. Brief notes on the usage of each questionnaire are included.
For general background and planning documents prepared in connection with these questionnaires, see Page Documents.
Questionnaire 1: Socio-economic
Character and content: Fairly straightforward form and content. Targeted at the specific needs with the overall data collection and research exercise. Unit of analysis: household. Aims to provide both background and data necessary for the following questionnaires. Originally prepared in French, translated into English and Arabic.
Notes: Administered in the two wetlands Oum Lelli and Sawana in the period July-September 2004. All households in all villages that lie around these two wetlands were interviewed. A number of local people, all teachers, were hired as enumerators. Following a training period in June 2004, they worked on their own, often in teams of two, and with regular daily and weekly supervision. The supervision included longer sessions involving all enumerators, where performance were evaluated jointly. More than 1.000 questionnaires were administered.
Download: Arabic (to be made available), English (to be made available), Français
Questionnaire 2: Toponymy
Character and content: Focuses on local and traditional names given to places and features of the study area. Builds upon data provided through the Socio-economic questionnaire. Unit of analysis: neighborhood groups composed of a varying number of households. Aims to provide both background and data necessary for questionnaire 'Resource use'. Originally prepared in English, translated into French.
Usage: Administered in the two wetlands Oum Lelli and Sawana in the period July-September 2004. All households in all villages that lie around these two wetlands were interviewed in focus groups. One person from each household in neighborhoods in each village was invited to attend. Participants were invited to draw large scale maps. Data collection was done by one of the two local TFT staff, aided by a local person. Following a longer training in June 2004, they worked on their own, but with regular daily/weekly supervision, which included longer sessions where performance were evaluated together with all enumerators. More than 1000 questionnaires were administered.
Questionnaire 3: Resource use
Character and content: Focuses on usage and outtake of local natural resources, as culturally defined and available in the research areas. Builds upon data provided through the Socio-economic questionnaire, but specifically the Toponymy questionnaire. Originally prepared in English, translated into French.
Usage: Administered in the two wetlands Oum Lelli and Sawana in the period July-September 2004. All households in all villages that lie around these two wetlands were interviewed. Participants were invited to draw large-scale maps Was done by one of the two local TFT staff, aided by a local person. More than 1.000 questionnaires were administered.
Questionnaire 4: Customary rights
Character and content: Intended to get at the specifics of the traditional ownership and usage system. It became evident, however, that the ownership system is fairly straightforward and simple, at least in theory, in that specific tribes (sometimes going down to specific factions of tribes) claim ownership to specific tracts of land. According to this management system, users have no ownership, and they have instead userights. Thus, the original intention with this questionnaire is not as relevant. Instead, it may be used to get at, for example, the patterns and specificities of the local use rights, based on the data coming out of the two questionnaires 'Toponymy' and 'Resource use'. It could, in addition, be used to collect information on the nature of any contested piece of land, as viewed from the point of view of the tribes and factions. A decision on whether and how to use this questionnaire has not yet been taken.