Many African youth are forced to leave their villages to attend institutions of higher learning located in towns and cities. These same questions also provide information on the mobility of youth, itself an important variable in AIDS research. Questions on ethnicity and religion should be added to the survey. However, obtaining this information is more complicated than it seems. Some Africans who have moved to urban areas, especially the children of such urban immigrants, are culturally similar to an ethnic group different from their own, usually the predominate ethnic group in that location.
More information is needed on the groups participating in Scenarios.
The fact that some questionnaires are filled out by individuals and others by groups complicates the analysis of the surveys. The majority of questions address the person filling out the questionnaire. This is the case even if the number of questions pertaining to groups is increased as outlined above. The answers given by the group leader may or may not be representative of others in the group. It would be far better to require each group member to fill out a separate survey.