MEAL Guides and Checklists

This section offers short, practical guides and checklists to help improve the design, implementation and quality of your surveys and other assessment activities.

Rapid Guides

IndiKit’s Rapid Guides respond to aid workers’ demand for short and useful guidance on a range of survey-related topics.      

• Rapid Guide to Disaggregating Quantitative Data (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)

• Rapid Guide to Survey Sampling (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)

• Rapid Guide to Describing Survey Methodology (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)

• Rapid Guide to Individual Interviews (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)

• Rapid Guide to Mobile Data Collection (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)

• Rapid Guide to Designing SMART Indicators (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)

• Rapid Guide to Collecting Survey Data on Gender-Based Violence (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)

• Rapid Guide to Localizing and Translating Survey Tools (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish) 

Practical Checklists

IndiKit’s survey checklists enable you to quickly assess whether you have omitted an important step in your survey design and implementation.

• Quantitative Surveys Checklist (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)  

• SMART Anthropometric Surveys Checklist (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)  

• Surveys Budgeting Checklist (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)  

• Surveys Logistics Checklist (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)              

The Quality Improvement and Verification Checklists (QIVC) provided below focus on improving the quality of the data collector’s work. Use them only after training the data collectors on the points the checklists monitor.

• QIVC for Individual Interviews (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)

• QIVC for Focus Group Discussions (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)

• QIVC for Anthropometric Data Collection (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)