# Presentation: 420626

## Democratic Republic of the CongoCognitive TestResultsQuestion 6 Communication6th Washington Group on Disability Statistics10th-13th October 2006

-       Jean Chrysostome KABILA KATUJUDI

## Plan

- Methodology
- Translation of questionnaire
- Enumerator training
- Interviewing people
- Results
- Explanation of patterns

## Methodology (Sampling method)

- Without a disability sampling frame on disabled persons and non disabled and because the sample size is small, quota sampling is the suitable method.
- In order to cover rural and urban area, the sites retained and covered are Mbujimayi and Tshilenge.
- Mbujimayi is a city; the capital of Kasaï Oriental province, one of the 10 provinces of DRC.

## Methodology (continued)

- A province is divided in districts, a district in territories.
- Tshilenge is one of the 3 districts of Kasaï Oriental and has a territory named Tshilenge, too. It is located in rural area.
- The sample size is small. Only 25 individuals have been interviewed as self report or with a proxy .

## Translation of questionnaire

- The questionnaire has been translated into two languages: the French and Tshiluba.
- The process of translating has been completed to improve the understanding and facilitate the interviews. How?
- The team of translating was constituted by students of the “Institut Supérieur Pédagogique” as translators and two of their Professors as checkers.

## Translation of questionnaire(ctd)

- After the translating by translators, checking of translations by checkers, the questionnaire went to the enumerator training for another checking, and then the final version came from the enumerator training and was as its agreement.
- The fact that tshiluba is a written language and the team is used to translate texts make the translation easy and no difficulty.

## Enumerator training

- The interviewer training was facilitated by the CD Rom provided by the Washington Group.
-  During more than two days, interviewers were provided with instructions on questionnaire administration.
- They watched CD Rom and understood well that the cognitive test is not so much a survey as an interview and it is very important for the interviewer not to help the respondents and to record exactly what they say .

## Interviewing people

- Five  interviewers divided into two teams and each interviewer did 5 interviews (25 respondents).
- Three interviewers operated in Mbujimayi (2 men and 1 woman)   and two men in Tshilenge.
- They worked during the same time.

## Interviewing people (continued)

- About the self report and the proxy: the list of person to be interviewed has been done before going on field. Arriving in the household or in the organization which the person belonging to, if the person listed could not answer, another member of that householder was selected to give answers concerning that listed person.

## Results

- On the 25 respondents 6 respondents have the difficulty of communication : 2 with a lot of  difficulty and 4 some difficulties.
- Among these 6 respondents, 2  answered themselves while for 4 answers have been provided by the proxy.

## Results

**Disabled respondents by organizations** **are given in the table below :**

## Explanations for responses

- Fourteen responses are non problematic response patterns : 13 belongs to pattern A whereas 1 to pattern B
- Four are in bordeline response patterns and respectively belongs to pattern C for 3 and 1 to pattern J
- No problematic response pattern was observed.

## Explanations of responses(contd)Explanation for the response pattern

| Pattern | Total | Interpretation | Explanation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A | 13 | Non problematic | - |
| B | 1 | Non problematic | - |
| C | 3 | Bordeline | Bad comprehension of question |
| D-F | 0 | Bordeline | - |
| G | 0 | Problematic | - |
| I | 0 | Bordeline | - |
| J | 1 | Bordeline | Understanding with one ear |
| K-L | 0 | Bordeline | - |
| M-N | 0 | Problematic | - |
| Missing | 7 | - | - |
| Total | 25 |  |  |

## Thank you for your attention