BPS Starting Android-Based Survey

Pilot Data Collection Survey of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior (Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice / KAP) Disaster Preparedness in Padang, West Sumatra, in June should be implemented for ten working days. However, the survey of 250 households in 10 census blocks was completed in just three days of work followed uploading or sending data to a central server processing on the fourth day without obstacles. All that is nothing but thanks to the adoption of technology-based tablet android.

New Technology, Business Process More Efficient
Adoption of Android-based tablets in data collection among other things, aims to minimize the posts that cause data errors are not clean. Through the entry application that is installed on the tablet, the respondents' answers are automatically validated and stored in the database and then be uploaded directly to a central server.
Hermawan Agustina, Kasi Processing Demographic Statistics BPS, examine the use of android based tablet in the KAP survey in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB). In this survey, tablets used for entry and validation, so ready data is uploaded to the server. â € œBNPB facilitate cheap tablet, sophisticated and powerful, equipped Sim Card and unlimited internet package for $ 100 thousand a month. Very cheap right? Â € asked Herman.
In the KAP survey, questionnaire (hardcopy) is still required as proof of administration. Tablet helped move into softcopy form. In testing, some respondents were interviewed directly with the tablet. In addition, the tablet is used to identify the location coordinates (latitude and longitude) are detected from the satellite to the GPS device directly. Some of the interview was recorded. â € œFor upload the data, it only took a few seconds per record as quickly as sending an SMS. Fast, inexpensive, and efficient, â € said Herman assured.
Training officers also designed differently. Completed registration, participants are given the instruments and questionnaires to be filled immediately, collected, and examined by the National Instructor (Eny, Yogo, Prapto) as a form of shock therapy is a new definition of concepts related to disaster. When the operation of the session the participants were not constrained tablet use. â € œMereka well just use the tablet. Any of which carry their own and live in-install the program, â € said Herman. On the last day, try out performed in the presence of Razali Ritonga Census Block (Director of Population and Employment Statistics BPS), Indra Murty Surbakti (Kasubdit Demographic Statistics BPS), Rizal (Head of Padang BPS), Agus Wibowo (Head of Data BNPB), and UNFPA representative.

CAPI Already Waiting Applied
Trial data collection that implements the Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) with tools mobile devices not just this time by BPS. Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) have been used in Indonesian Tobacco Use Survey, 2011. Students STIS 51 forces also use a laptop while Practices Field Work (PKL) in 2012.
Diah Daniaty, an apprentice at the Directorate of Population and Employment Statistics, under the guidance and direction of Hermawan, complete the entry application programming Android GPS integration and monitoring through the website http://demografi.bps.go.id so that progress can be monitored directly implementation of BNPB and BPS.
In the future, the application of android based tablet in the BPS is a challenging and promising. Mainly because of the adoption of this technology requires adequate support, both in terms of human resources, tools, and infrastructure. The application requires Android-based tablet BPS HR capability for a wide range of applications further development in order to be applied in a variety of BPS survey. In addition, data with mobile devices should also consider the reliability of the device specifications in terms of memory capacity and processing speed, security and data backup, power, and connections to the network / internet.

According to Herman, the concept and experience of BPS in KAP survey allows to be applied to other data collection activities in the BPS. Tablets can be used for recording video and photos, data, GPS position detection, to sending data to the server. Concerns run out of power can be anticipated with the power of banks as a source of backup power. Related data transmission, connection to the internet is sometimes constrained in the field can be greatly assisted by the WIFI facility in the province BPS library space. CAPI has been waiting to be applied, ready BPS?