Myanmar Dried Fish Consumption Survey - Methodology

The survey was a formal type of a close-ended questionnaire survey involving face-to-face interviews with consumers from the selected study areas.

2.1 Questionnaire design process

The questionnaire was designed to be simple and easy to answer so that NAG field staff can conduct it without causing significant disruption to their daily work. The questionnaire was divided into seven components for each type of fish, as shown in figure 2. In this survey, we focused on eight categories of fish (fresh and processed).

Figure 2 here

2.2 Sampling design

The sample size for this study was deducted from the sampling frame which was collected from the NAG project area. For the purpose of this study, the total number of 1100 respondents were selected by using a purposive sampling method from the 8 states and region (Table-1).

Table 1 here

2.3 Data Collection and analysis

From October 2019 to March 2020, data collection was undertaken by NAG field staff using Kobo data collection application during their regular visit to the project’s villages. All the collected data were stored on the kobo server. After compiling and cleaning the data, an analysis was carried out using Microsoft Excel 2010.