Community Skills Development Centers 2016

Namibia, 2016

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Reference ID

NAM_2016_MCC-CSDC_v01_M

Producer(s)

Mathematica Policy Research

Collection(s)

Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

Metadata

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Identification

Survey ID number

NAM_2016_MCC-CSDC_v01_M

Title

Community Skills Development Centers 2016

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Namibia	NAM

Study type

Independent Performance Evaluation

Abstract

The performance evaluation of the COSDEC subactivity integrated a qualitative analysis and a quantitative outcomes analysis. The qualitative analysis explored implementation of the subactivity, how it evolved after the compact, and its sustainability. It relied on two rounds of qualitative data: one conducted close to the end of the Namibia compact, and a second conducted about a year later. The qualitative data drew on focus groups with COSDEC trainees and interviews with COSDEC managers, the COSDEF (the body that oversees the COSDECs), implementers, employers, and other stakeholders. The outcomes analysis sought to describe the characteristics and outcomes of enrollees in the seven new or renovated COSDECs. It relied on a survey of COSDEC enrollees that collected information about their training and labor market outcomes about one year after the end of COSDEC training. The COSDEC enrollee survey and the second round of qualitative data informed the final COSDEC evaluation report. (The findings from the first round of qualitative data were provided in an interim evaluation report covering all three subactivities.) The data from the COSDEC enrollee survey are available for public use, but the qualitative data are not because of the risks to confidentiality.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Individuals

Version

Version Description

Anonymized dataset for public distribution

Version Notes

Version 02 is the edited version produced by Development Data Group (The World Bank) based on Version 01 (DDI-MCC-NAM-MPR-COSDEC-2017-v1) that was done by Millennium Challenge Corporation. Data was downloaded from https://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog/199/

Scope

Notes

The survey covered the following topics:

Confirm respondent
Education
Employment and earnings
Income and household demographics
Demographic information
Health behaviors

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary
Vocational education and training
Education	MCC Sector

Keywords

Education Vocational education and training Namibia

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

COSDEC providers throughout Namibia.

Universe

All enrollees in the 36 national courses that started in the seven new and renovated COSDECs between July and December 2014.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
Mathematica Policy Research

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name
Millennium Challenge Corporation

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The targeted sample for the COSDEC evaluation consists of all 934 enrollees in the national courses that started in the seven new and renovated COSDECs between July and December 2014. Of these enrollees, 642 completed a survey, and constitute the analytic sample used for the analysis.

Deviations from the Sample Design

Based on a request from COSDEF, we also administered the survey to enrollees in COSDEC Benguela (Lüderitz)--the only COSDEC not affected by the subactivity. COSDEF funded this additional data collection because they wanted comparable data and summary statistics for all the COSDECs in Namibia for their internal purposes, but our evaluation only covered the seven new and renovated COSDECs. Because data for COSDEC Benguela were entirely outside the evaluation, we have excluded this COSDEC from the public use dataset. The appendix to the COSDEC final report contains additional information about the data for COSDEC Benguela.

Response Rate

The response rate to the follow-up survey in the seven new or rennovated COSDECs was 68.7 percent.

Weighting

No weights were used in the main analysis.

However, as a robustness check, we estimated results using non-response weights. These weights were designed to make the weighted sample reflect the applicant sample in terms of its distribution across trainings. To create these weights, we weighted each respondent by the inverse of the response rate in the training in which they enrolled. We then top-coded these weights at 3 standard deviations above the mean for the full sample to account for outliers and normalized the sum of the weights to equal the number of observations. The non-response weight variable is called t1_weight. The results applying these weights were very similar to the unweighted results.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

The COSDEC survey was developed by Mathematica, and was a computer-assisted survey that was conducted by telephone. The survey was developed in English and was translated into Afrikaans, Oshiwambo, Otjiherero, and Rukwangali; the translated versions were used for respondents who were not comfortable in English. The survey included the following modules: (1) education and vocational training; (2) employment and earnings; (3) income and household demographics; and (4) health behaviors (related to HIV/AIDS and pregnancy).

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2016-01-07	2016-06-20

Data Collectors

Name
Survey Warehouse

Supervision

The data were collected by a handful of interviewers who worked from Survey Warehouse( SW) office in Windhoek. These were supervised by a senior on-site SW staff member. Mathematica staff provided support as required.

Data Collection Notes

The COSDEC survey was conducted by Survey Warehouse from January to June 2016, with oversight from Mathematica. Interviews were conducted in English, Afrikaans, Oshiwambo, Otjiherero, or Rukwangali using a computer-assisted telephone interview system. Although the plan was for the survey to occur roughly one year after the scheduled end of each training, in practice the timing varied somewhat (between 12 and 16 months). However, the median was one year after the end of training (12 months).

Data processing

Data Editing

Mathematica conducted cleaning of the raw data file in Stata, which included checking the validity of variable values and ranges; verifying skip patterns; cleaning and back-coding common "other-specify" responses; creating binaries of categorical variables; and recoding skips, missing data, and other non-response values to standardized lettered indicators. Mathematica then merged these data with sample information related to the COSDEC training in which each individual was enrolled (for example, provider, course name, and course duration).

Data appraisal

Estimates of Sampling Error

The survey data were intended to cover the universe of applicants to the included trainings, and did not involve any sampling. The only source of error in the estimated means is survey non-response. Users can therefore rely on standard formulae to calculate the sampling error for the estimated means.

Data Access

Access conditions

Public use files, accessible to all.

Citation requirements

Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

the Identification of the Primary Investigator
the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
the survey reference number
the source and date of download

Example:

Borkum, Evan, Arif Mamun, and Malik Mubeen."Evaluation of the Community Skills Development Centres (COSDEC) Subactivity Outcomes Survey, 2016". Data submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research, September 2017.

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Email
Monitoring & Evaluation Division of the Millennium Challenge Corporation	impact-eval@mcc.gov

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_NAM_2016_MCC-CSDC_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
Mathematica Policy Research		Independent Evaluator
Development Data Group	The World Bank	Editing DDI

Date of Metadata Production

2017-09-15

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 02 (April 2018) Edited version based on Version 01 (DDI-MCC-NAM-MPR-COSDEC-2017-v1) that was done by Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Tasks done:

Datasets provided and literal questions added
External resources provided

Version 1 (September 2017)

Version notes

The COSDEC survey sample included all individuals who enrolled in national courses starting between July and December 2014 in the seven targeted COSDECs. This intake was the first one expected to fully benefit from the subactivity (COSDECs typically have two main intakes per year, one in each half of the year, and the interventions were completed only by mid-2014).

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