SAVVY: Sample Vital Registration with Verbal Autopsy

Overview Booklet

Sample Vital Registration with Verbal Autopsy (SAVVY): An Overview provides a concise overview of the SAVVY system.

Central Office Manuals

Data Processing Manager's Manual provides both an overview and step-by-step discussion of the SAVVY data processing system. The SAVVY data system uses CSPro, a free software developed and supported by the U.S. Census Bureau, available for downloading at: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/cspro/downinfo.htm.

The relevant SAVVY system applications that use CSPro are within the folder called “SAVVY CSPro.” All files within the SAVVY CSPro subfolder need to be copied to your computer’s hard drive in order for you to run them (the SAVVY data processing system files cannot be used directly from this webpage). Two instructional manuals for starting and operating CSPro software, CSPro Getting Started, version 3.3, and CSPro User’s Guide, version 3.3, are in the “CSPro” folder.

SAVVY Budget Manual and SAVVY budget spreadsheet template software are used in the budgeting process for SAVVY planning.

Verbal Autopsy Certifier and Coder's Manual provides an overview of cause-of-death certification and an outline of the step-by-step process involved in coding information collected from verbal autopsy procedures.

Field Office Manager's Manual describes the roles and responsibilities of the field office manager, a senior district official responsible for managing operations of the SAVVY system at the district or province level.

Census Survey Field Manuals

Census Interviewer's Manual provides baseline census interviewers with a complete description of their roles and responsibilities. This manual also includes documents that can be revised to meet local needs:

SAVVY Census Household Questionnaire, the baseline census survey form

Household Return-Visit Form

SAVVY System Information Letter

Historic Calendar

Census Address Listing Book

Census Update Interviewer's Manual provides census update interviewers with a description of their roles and responsibilities. The manual provides guidelines for canvassing an assignment area, reading and updating an assignment area map, reading and revising a pre-printed address listing book, and completing the SAVVY census update questionnaire and SAVVY census change questionnaire. This manual also includes documents that can be revised to meet local needs.

SAVVY Census Update Questionnaire

SAVVY Census Change Questionnaire

Household Return-Visit Form

SAVVY System Information Letter

Historic Calendar Example

Census Update Address Listing Book

Census Supervisor's Manual prepares census supervisors for their role and responsibilities during the baseline and the update rounds of the census. It provides guidelines for supervising interviewers when they are canvassing assignment areas, reading and updating maps, completing address listing books, and completing SAVVY baseline and update census questionnaires. This manual also includes documents that can be revised to meet local needs:

Supervisor's Management Record

Initial Observation Checklist

Quality Assurance Review Page

Quality Assurance Check Record

Unit Verification Form

Error List

Census Supervisor Coordinator's Manual describes the duties of the census supervisor coordinator during the baseline census and the census update rounds. The manual provides guidelines on the field observation of census supervisors in order to determine if interviewers are being properly trained and monitored during the interview period. This manual also includes documents that can be revised to meet local needs:

Training Observation Form

Initial Observation Checklist

Quality Assurance Review Page

Quality Assurance Check Record

On-the-Job Training Observation Checklist

Unit Verification Form

Error List

Household Return-Visit Form

Verbal Autopsy Field Manuals

Training Guides and Workbooks