What about the 12,000 Young Lives children and families spread out over Ethiopia, India, Vietnam and Peru?
Why we track? Young Lives is following 12,000 children over 15 years. data collection and are shortly beginning our 5th round. This means on average there would be 3 years between survey rounds where we would not normally be in contact with our children and families. By introducing a tracking visit in between survey rounds we can maintain greece rcs data contact with the families and children over a shorter period of time. This increased level of contact provides multiple benefits:
Maintaining and strengthening our relationships with the Young Lives children and families
Reduced time during the fieldwork locating children and households
Easier to maintain contact with persons who do short but frequent movements
An opportunity to feedback about the project and ensure our respondents are happy to continue to participate
How do we track?
Our countries are varied in size, demography, and economic status and no single approach for locating the children between rounds works universally across the four countries. Combine this with children who are growing older and becoming young adults thus migrating on their own and more likely not to have their own permanent ‘home address’ we have to be adaptable and quick thinking.