Strengths and limitations:
The overall support of Department of Health NMDs through ownership,
using their field workers for data collection and using their MIS staff
for data entry, has made this effort successful. Data has been collected
directly from the respondent with their consent. The multistage sampling
and further segregation of respondents including male and females under
the age of 18, is a strength of this survey.
In view of the very few successful and documented attempts for direct
contact with residents of these hard to reach and inaccessible areas to
ascertain status of knowledge about different issues and their
viewpoint, this survey carries much weightage.
Survey was not conducted in the two remaining NMDs of Muhmand and Bajour
due to the non-availability of outreach field workers at those
locations.