Selecting Families and Individuals for Archdiocesan Survey

At the Archdiocesan Survey training sessions conducted for the parish teams, they were explained how to go about selecting families and individuals who are to respond to the questionnaire. Click the following links for the details of the instructions and the formats given to them:

Step By Step Procedure for Selecting Families and Individuals

Format for Selection of Families by Draw of Lots

KISH Grid Format For Selecting Individuals

Presentation on Selecting Families and Individuals

Schedules for the Archdiocesan Consultation Survey

Dear Friends,
As indicated at our meeting, you are requested to do your very best to keep the following deadline:

• completing  the 'homework' i.e., the background work needed (according to the two formats given to you for selecting families and selecting persons from within the families) by 26th Feb
• first data collection exercise (by calling the selected persons to the parish) - (Sunday) 4th March
• second data collection exercise (by calling the selected persons who did not turn up on 4th march to the parish) - 8th March evening (HOLI festival)
• visiting those who did not turn up for the data collection, and personally interviewing them... and submitting all data - 11 March (Sunday) at the APC mtg

kindly note: you need not wait till you have collected all the data. as soon as you have a few questionnaires ready, please inform Mr Melwin (9819585747 or olcm.bom@gmail.com) and he will arrange to pick up the completed questionnaires from you.

thanks for your dedicated and diligent effort to make our survey meaningful

God Bless,

fr Mario

Frequently Asked Questions About Survey for Consultation

1.    What is all this about?

Just as we had a Archdiocesan Synod in 2001, so also we are going to have an Archdiocesan Consultation. The aim of this Consultation is to take stock of ourselves as Church – the progress we have made, the changes  in our world which are affecting us, and how we can effectively respond to these.

In order to do this, the first step is a survey – for which we need the help of the SCC animators.

2.    What do we have to do?

For the survey to be conducted in a scientific manner, we need a list of families in each SCC of your parish. If you already have that, then bring it along for the meeting as per the schedule. If you do not have that data, then please ask your SCC coordinators to get the data – I have already sent the format for that. Keep the remarks column blank. (for details refer to http://sccmumbai.blogspot.in/)

3.    Who all have to come for meeting?

The (lay) parish SCC coordinator,  the APC representative, and a few zonal heads (about 4-5 persons from each parish)

4.    What to bring for the meeting?

Bring the list of families in the SCCs of your parish – we will be using it during the meeting to show you how to statistically select the persons from whom you have to collect the survey data. Once you do this exercise for a few SCCs of your parish, then you can go back to the parish and do the for all the SCCs of your parish

5.    What is the agenda of the meeting?

• Welcome & brief outline of the Consultation Process
• Presentation of the methodology of the survey, with special emphasis on sampling procedures – how to scientifically select the persons from whom data is to be collected
• Group work  by SCC animators  on their respective list of families so as to select the ones to be interviewed for data collection for a few SCCs in their parish
• Guidelines on how to collect data (do’s and don’ts)
• Time for clarifications

6.    What if I can’t make it for the meeting?

The list of various meetings is given. All the meetings will have the same content (the meeting in Uttan will be in Marathi). If you cannot make it to your scheduled meeting, then pl  go for another convenient meeting; else your parish will be missed out for the Survey!

Meeting for Instructions Regarding Archdiocesan Survey

dear friends,

In preparation for the Archdiocesan Consultation, we will be conducting a survey across the parishes of Mumbai.

A professional Team is preparing a questionnaire for the survey. In order to collect the data from the people, we need the help of our SCC animators:

1. Kindly be prepared with a list of families in your SCC. Click here for a brief background of the entire process & Instructions for preparing a list of families in your SCCs 
2. If you don't have your data ready, you may click here  to get a format for list of families in your SCCs . Do not fill in anything in the remarks column.
3.  Please pass on the list of families in your SCC to your (Lay) Parish SCC coordinator. He / She is supposed to bring the lists of families of all the SCCs in the parish to the training program mentioned below.
4. The (Lay) Parish SCC coordinator and the Zonal Heads of the parish, together with the APC representative, are to attend a very important training program, for your respective Deaneries, on how to go about the data collection process as per the schedule given below:

 

Deanery	Date & Time	Venue
Andheri & Borivili	20 Feb,  10am-12 noon	St Pius Seminary, Goregaon
South Mumbai, North Mumbai, Bandra, Central Suburbs	20 Feb, 7.00 – 9.00 pm	Salvation Church, Dadar West
Thane & Kurla	25 Feb,  7.00 – 9.00 pm	St John Baptist Church, Thane
Bhayander (in Marathi)	26 Feb, 10.30 am – 12.30 noon	Our Lady of the Sea Church, Uttan
Navi Mumbai & Raigad	26 Feb,  6.00 – 8.00 pm	Sacred Heart Church, Vashi

for any further assistance / clarifications  you may contact Fr Mario Mendes - 9892355051, or email: mendesmario@yahoo.com

Fr Mario 
for,

Survey Team

Working Committee

Consultation 2012.