5.4 Revisits / Resurveys
Village revisits and resurveys were undertaken in the normal course of the survey, or when one of the QA/QC procedures identified the requirement. When revisits or resurveys occurred the revisit report superseded any previous reports.
Revisits / resurveys were initiated by the following:
- Undertaken when internal Quality Control procedures identified errors or omissions in the report, this included a number of surveyor initiated revisits confirmed by QA.
- Quality Assurance identified serious omissions in the survey report, (5 villages).
- Pailin municipality was resurveyed in January 2002, a total of 68 villages, when it was identified that an unacceptable number of reports required correction.
- When identified by the Database Manager that information contained in the report was incorrect and unacceptable.
- In order to reconcile victim data, almost 1,000 villages were revisited during the December 2001 – January 2002 period due to the lessons learned about collecting victim data.
- In order to achieve the 100% target of all Cambodian villages five provinces were revisited during the final days of the project. This was done in order to capture villages that had during the previous visit been inaccessible. This included one detachment penetrating the jungle on foot and travelling for two nights and days to reach an isolated village. As a result all but 2 villages in Cambodia were reached by the survey.
- In order to standardise methodology. Kampong Chhnang province was the first province to be surveyed, due to changes in the methodology during the survey period the province was resurveyed in March – April 2002.
Documentation
Not all revisits are recorded in the database, those initiated by surveyors remain uncountable. When a resurvey took place the new data set replaced the old, with both sets of data remaining in the database.
