Procedures and Instruments. The data collection instrument used for the 2014 KDHS analysis included a set of five questionnaires geared towards men and women in both rural and urban areas. Since the households were divided into a sample of two halves, interviews were conducted using the following questionnaires: a full household questionnaire, the full woman’s questionnaire, and the man's questionnaire or the short household questionnaire and the short woman’s questionnaire. The questionnaires shared similar characteristics with previous DHS questionnaires, but it was revised to represent the country’s current need, at the time of the survey. More information on the specificity of household-level subsample selection is available in the official final report of the 2014 KDHS (KDHS, 2014). All questionnaires included an assessment of men and women’s eligibility to complete individual interviews. Additionally, all questionnaires were translated into 16 other languages in order to account for all ethnic groups which have language differences across Kenya. These translated questionnaires were pretested from January 17th to February 15th before data collection.
Procedures and Instruments. A veterinarian working with Christian Veterinary Mission (CVM), Port-au-Prince, trained survey enumerators. Survey enumerators travelled to 8 different randomly selected districts over the course of several months. The Ministry of Agriculture announced the vaccination clinics over loudspeakers one week prior to the day of vaccination, and once more on the day of vaccination. Vaccination sites were established in geographic centers of sites, with up to eight satellite sites spread across the community, depending on the population size of the site. Vaccination sites were considered centralized, in that community members came to a central location for vaccination, rather than door-to-door efforts. Enumerators were given dog collars, counting devices, a GPS unit, and survey forms in French and English. Surveys were administered orally in Creole to dog owners presenting for free rabies vaccination of their animals at district sites on various sponsored vaccination days during summer, fall, and winter of 2014. Vaccinated animals were given unique collars and temporary wax ID markers to identify them as already vaccinated and thereby prevent duplication of sampling. The survey methodology employed convenience sampling in that every owner who presented animals for rabies vaccination received the survey and could elect to participate or not. Using these methods, the entire catchment area at the specified GPS coordinates was canvassed for dog owners. The sample is therefore representative of the geographic area in which it was collected. Our data collection instrument was a Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) survey. The survey consisted of 16 questions focusing on the number of animals under care, the level of care provided to animals, rabies vaccination habits, symptoms of rabies in previously owned animals, the nature of deaths of previously owned animals, and any occurrences of dog bites or symptoms of rabies deaths in any known individuals. The survey was intentionally brief in order to capture basic data from a wide number of animal owners without delaying the primary goal of animal vaccination, thus allowing for a preliminary valid characterization of dog ownership practices and animal welfare in Haiti. To our knowledge, only one published study on animal ownership habits in Haiti exists. This study was limited to Port-au-Prince and was conducted after the 2010 earthquake. Our study encompasses a broader geographic area and provides results that charact...
