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.