This document contains instructions and questions for an exam on training in the WHS Kuwait English-speakers group. It includes: 1) A series of multiple choice and true/false questions covering different sections of a household questionnaire, including topics like household roster, expenditures, transfers, assets, employment, and health. 2) Examples of household composition and marital status classification questions. 3) Questions asking how to classify different types of financial support. 4) Examples asking whether certain activities should be considered vigorous or certain questions applicable. The document tests the examinee's knowledge of how to accurately administer and record responses to a household survey. It covers a wide range of topics addressed in the questionnaire

1. EXAM OF THE TRAINING IN WHS KUWAIT
ENGLISH-SPEAKERS GROUP
(12 FEB 09)
NAME:…………………………..
NB- Four pages are provided, all questions are to be attempted
PUT or X when appropriate:
Serial Section QUESTION Answer
1 300 You-the interviewer- have to talk to just one person to get HH information
2 400 In HH roster, relation to HH head rather than to the respondent is recorded
3 400 HH head is the oldest person who in most money
4 400 In the HH roster, only those who share meals and usually stay for at least 4
months are recorded
5 500 You have to use show cards when asking about the main source of drinking
water in the HH
6 600 Only transfers in of the respondent is recorded
7 600 A separate section is used to record different types of support networks and
transfers
8 600 You can't record health care to persons other than HH members
9 600 Financial support to other HH members is recorded in section 600
10 600 03:45 pm is a correct way to record timing
11 700 The option "refused" is accepted regarding questions related to assets
12 700 Total HH income during the last 12 months including the current interview
month, is recorded in the interview
13 700 Beneficiaries of HH income are all HH members in addition to children from
out side the HH
14 800 As the "Day" is the base for calculating needs of food items, section 800
concerns daily expenditures for food items
15 800 You are going to ask about the monthly expenditures of health care
16 1500 You will ask about any job the respondent has in addition to his current main
job (Q1516 to 1519), if he was a governmental employer who had transferred
to the private sector during the last year.

2. PUT or X when appropriate:
Serial Section QUESTION Answer
17 2506 You can use the equipment of measuring height for any types of floor.
18 2510 In the timed walk test, the respondent is allowed to use his cane.
19 2516 It is not allowed for the respondent to use his contact lenses in the Near
Vision test.
20 2534 In the digit span test, if the first trial is correct, you will shift to the second
trial.
21 3012 One serving of fruit = one kg approximately.
22 4108 If the female respondent answered Q4108, you will proceed to ask Q4109 and
Q4110.
23 4124 After you have seen a vaccination card, you have to make sure of the
immunaization status by asking questions 4124 to 4129.
24 5000 This section covers health care of the respondent during the last 12 months.
25 7000 In the Individual questionnaire – Set “B”, if the respondent awake from sleep
at 13:00, record this in Q7013 then skip to Q7500.
26 8008 If the respondent was not the main or other caregiver in the HH, don’t ask him
Q8018 to Q8027.

3. Encircle the correct answer:
1- Joseph has finished his primary schooling, during the interview he was in the
intermediate stage, so the level of education of him will be:
a) Less than primary school
b) Intermediate school
c) He did not enroll in formal education.
d) Primary school
2- John and his kids (Jack-Jessica-Clara and Peter) were living in the same flat in
addition to his wife and a home maid. However, his son is learning abroad
since 10 months, So the total number of HH is:
a. Four
b. Five
c. Six
d. Seven
3- Divan is divorced and he is currently married of Endera (Q1000), How do you
classify his marital status:
a- Divorced
b- Married
c- Widowed
d- Separated
4- Kumar is getting monthly financial support from the “Patients’ Helping Aid”.
You will consider this as:
1) Transfer in from the state
2) Transfer in from community
3) Transfer in from family
4) Transfer in from government
5. Rashed is used to purchase food items weekly for his sister, who is living with
her children in another region. If you know that she is paying him for those food
items. You will classify this support as:
1- Financial
2- In-kind
3- Services
4- Others

4. Encircle Y (yes) or N (no) to the following questions:
Serial Question Answer
1 Sami is feeling tired during moving from his office to the next door Y N
office. He is feeling an increase in heart beats. This is considered
as vigorous activity?
2 Isac has already come back from Delhi. He was sharing in the Y N
election of National Assembly in Delhi. You are going to record
“not applicable” opposite the questions related to the voting in the
recent election.
3 Adeel has been born in Kuwait since 3 years. His father was the Y N
informant of the Individual questionnaire. Will you ask about the
reproductive care of Adeel’s mother.
4 Raj receives not-regular income, by dealing with the stack market. Y N
Is this income classified as seasonal regular source.