Technical assistance to country teams and survey businesses in all aspects of the SMS

This BMBF-funded project provides technical assistance to scientific country teams and survey businesses on all aspects of the electronic contact protocol "Sample Management System" (SMS). The SMS is an interviewer software that provides detailed household information, facilitates the documentation of household contacts and appointments, and starts and synchronizes interviews. Technical assistance includes aspects such as solving eligibility issues of respondents, synchronization problems, bugs, interpretation of system output, assigning contact codes, handling the software, and providing manuals.