UNHS Field Interviewers May 2026

50 questions, 30 minutes

1. While performing diagnostic checks on a multi-variable structural equation model (SEM) tracking regional human development indices, an analyst calculates a Satorra-Bentler scaled chi-square statistic. In what specific data scenario is the Satorra-Bentler correction required?

A. When all independent variables are perfectly binary.

B. When the sample size is smaller than the total number of estimated parameters.

C. When the observed variables exhibit severe multi-variate non-normality or heavy kurtosis, which inflates standard chi-square goodness-of-fit statistics.

D. When the dataset contains zero missing values and exhibits a perfect multi-variate normal distribution.

2. When transmitting encrypted survey data from a local field office in Gulu to the central database in Kampala over a public internet connection, which protocol provides the highest security?

A. B) FTP

B. C) HTTPS / SFTP

C. A) HTTP

D. D) Telnet

3. A supervisor sends a link asking enumerators to ‘verify payroll details’ using a personal email address. What should the enumerator do? (Scenario code E031)

A. Treat it as suspicious and verify through official channels before clicking

B. Enter tablet password to test it

C. Forward it to respondents

D. Click quickly because it mentions payroll

4. During a post-enumeration survey validation, it is discovered that the variance of a key welfare estimator within individual sampling strata is extremely low, but the variance between different strata is exceptionally high. This scenario proves that:

A. The stratification process was highly effective at improving estimation precision.

B. The data suffers from severe heteroskedastic data entry corruption.

C. Simple random sampling would have produced a much lower standard error.

D. The sample size was too small to yield any statistically meaningful conclusions.

5. Into which specific administrative region of Uganda would a UNHS survey team travel to conduct interviews in districts such as Kotido, Kaabong, and Moroto?

A. Karamoja Sub-region

B. Lango Sub-region

C. West Nile Region

D. Acholi Sub-region

6. True or False: If a member of the household is temporarily away (e.g., working out of town), they should not be counted as a household member.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

7. A complex multi-dimensional transformation matrix operates on an abstract data node in a 3D coordinate system. The node undergoes three sequential transformations: (1) Rotation of 90? counter-clockwise around the Z-axis. (2) Reflection across the X-Y plane. (3) Translation of +3 units along the X-axis. If the initial position of the node is at coordinates (2, 4, 5), what are its finalized spatial coordinates at the end of the sequence?

A. (-1, 4, -5)

B. (-1, 2, -5)

C. (5, -2, 5)

D. (-4, 2, -5)

8. During a post-enumeration survey validation, it is discovered that the variance of a key welfare estimator within individual sampling strata is extremely low, but the variance between different strata is exceptionally high. This scenario proves that:

A. The stratification process was highly effective at improving estimation precision.

B. Simple random sampling would have produced a much lower standard error.

C. The sample size was too small to yield any statistically meaningful conclusions.

D. The data suffers from severe heteroskedastic data entry corruption.

9. When computing the variance of a non-linear statistic (such as the Gini Coefficient or a complex ratio estimator) from a national survey dataset with a highly stratified cluster design, which resampling technique is standard for estimating standard errors accurately without violating design properties?

A. Jackknife Repeated Replication (JRR) or Balanced Repeated Replication (BRR)

B. Simple Pearson Linear Inversion

C. Linear Programming Optimization

D. First-Order OLS Matrix Interpolation

E. 3

10. Explain why the computation of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) using the Expenditure Approach must precisely subtract the total value of Imports (M) from the primary accounting identity (Y = C + I + G + [X – M]).

A. Imports are already captured inside the national consumer price index basket weights.

B. Imports represent untaxed black-market goods that violate national accounting systems.

C. Subtracting imports forces the exchange rate of the Uganda Shilling to appreciate against foreign currencies.

D. The components of domestic expenditure (C, I, G) naturally include spending on imported foreign goods; subtracting M ensures GDP only reflects value added within the domestic geographic boundaries.

11. 2 hours after a freight train leaves Delhi a passenger train leaves the same station travelling in the same direction at an average speed of 16 km/hr. After travelling 4 hrs the passenger train overtakes the freight train. The average speed of the freight train was?

A. 40

B. 60

C. 58

D. 30

12. In Lira, 11 of 26 assigned interviews are completed. If one assignment is chosen at random, what is the probability it is not completed?

A. 26/15

B. Nov-26

C. 15-Nov

D. 15/26

13. In the following question, two statements are given as independent clauses whereby one may be a cause and the other may be an effect or both. Read both statements and indicate which of the answer options depicts the relationship between the two statements. Statements: I) Thousands of Afghanistan sought refuge. II) Many people from Afghanistan are on asylum in several countries.

A. Both statements are independent clauses

B. Statement II is the cause and I is the effect

C. Statement I is the cause and II is the effect

D. Both statements are effects of some cause

14. X shaved 40% of his customers and gave a haircut to 80%. He charged Rs.7 for a shave and Rs.5 for a hair cut. If 20% of customers who opted for a shave also had a haircut, what were the earnings if he had 75 customers?

A. 410

B. None of these

C. 510

D. 1020

15. Which does not belong: supervisor, enumerator, respondent, spreadsheet cell?

A. enumerator

B. supervisor

C. spreadsheet cell

D. respondent

16. Look at this sequence: 70, 71, 74, 79, 86, … What number should come next?

A. B) 97

B. D) 99

C. A) 93

D. C) 95

17. A field team leader notes that the ratio of female respondents to male respondents surveyed in a sub-county is 5:3. If they interviewed a total of 120 respondents, how many more women were interviewed than men?

A. 30

B. 45

C. 15

D. 75

18. During a Mbarara interview, a respondent gives age as ‘around 30′ but does not know the exact year of birth. What is best?

A. Leave age blank

B. Use approved probing methods and record the best verified age estimate

C. Enter 99 for all uncertain ages

D. Enter 30 without any probing

19. A data analyst executes an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to evaluate the impact of microfinance access on household savings. A post-estimation test reveals a Durbin-Watson statistic of 0.65. What structural problem does this diagnostic value confirm within the model?

A. High Level of Heteroskedasticity in the error distribution.

B. Perfect normality of the residual distribution, validating the model.

C. Extreme Multicollinearity among the explanatory variables.

D. Positive First-Order Autocorrelation among the residuals, indicating omitted time-series trends or structural misspecification.

20. During a localized longitudinal health survey, an analyst uses a Cox Proportional Hazards model to analyze the time until a household experiences water-borne illness. If the hazard ratio (HR) for households utilizing boiling protocols is calculated as 0.35, what is the correct interpretation?

A. Exactly 35% of households in the sample utilize water boiling protocols.

B. Households that boil water are 35 times more likely to get sick.

C. The illness occurs 35 days faster in households that boil water.

D. Boiling water reduces the risk of water-borne illness at any given point in time by 65%.

21. Three types of tea the a,b,c costs Rs. 95/kg,100/kg and70/kg respectively.How many kgs of each should be blended to produce 100 kg of mixture worth Rs.90/kg, given that the quntities of band c are equal

A. 60,20,20

B. 50,25,25

C. 70,15,15

D. 40,30,30

22. Consider the following logical formula structure used in a data validation rule: =IF(AND(A2=’Married’, B2<18), ‘Flag Error’, ‘Valid’). Under what specific condition will this rule generate a ‘Flag Error’ message?

A. When the individual is married and older than 18.

B. Only when the individual is both recorded as married and their age is strictly less than 18.

C. When the individual is either married or under 18 years old.

D. Whenever the individual is under 18 years old, regardless of marital status.

23. Explain why the computation of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) using the Expenditure Approach must precisely subtract the total value of Imports (M) from the primary accounting identity (Y = C + I + G + [X – M]).

A. The components of domestic expenditure (C, I, G) naturally include spending on imported foreign goods; subtracting M ensures GDP only reflects value added within the domestic geographic boundaries.

B. Imports represent untaxed black-market goods that violate national accounting systems.

C. Imports are already captured inside the national consumer price index basket weights.

D. Subtracting imports forces the exchange rate of the Uganda Shilling to appreciate against foreign currencies.

24. When running a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to measure the causal impact of a school feeding program where eligibility is strictly restricted to schools with a poverty index score above a cutoff value of 65, what is the fundamental underlying assumption required for RDD to yield valid causal estimates?

A. Schools located just below the cutoff of 65 are, on average, structurally identical in their unobserved characteristics to schools located just above the cutoff.

B. The poverty index score must be perfectly correlated with school test scores.

C. The program must be rolled out to every school in the country simultaneously.

D. The cutoff value must change randomly every month during the survey cycle.

25. A selected household in Kabale asks why their home was chosen. What is the best answer?

A. Say wealthy households are always selected

B. Explain that households are selected scientifically to represent many similar households

C. Say they were selected because of complaints

D. Say the LC1 chairperson chose them personally

26. While analyzing survey metadata, the research team examines the “timestamp log”. What can this specific information help detect?

A. C) The battery health of the tablet screen.

B. D) Changes in regional weather patterns.

C. B) Enumerator speed-running or fraud (e.g., an entire 45-minute module completed in 4 minutes).

D. A) The precise household income level.

27. Which question is most job-relevant for a household survey role?

A. What is your favorite celebrity?

B. How would you handle a selected household refusing consent?

C. What is your tribe?

D. Which football club should win?

28. Which is a safe data-sharing practice?

A. Use personal cloud accounts without approval

B. Share only the minimum approved data with authorized people

C. Post raw records in a group chat

D. Share full raw data with anyone who asks

29. In Arua, the household respondent reports owning a mosquito net, but later says it was borrowed from a neighbor. What should the enumerator do?

A. Clarify ownership using the questionnaire definition and record the verified answer

B. Ask the neighbor to decide ownership

C. Delete the asset section

D. Record ownership because the item is physically present

30. Which does not belong: supervisor, enumerator, respondent, spreadsheet cell?

A. enumerator

B. spreadsheet cell

C. supervisor

D. respondent

31. X shaved 40% of his customers and gave a haircut to 80%. He charged Rs.7 for a shave and Rs.5 for a hair cut. If 20% of customers who opted for a shave also had a haircut, what were the earnings if he had 75 customers?

A. None of these

B. 1020

C. 410

D. 510

32. Under the guidelines of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) of Uganda, what is the explicit purpose of the “Charter for Fiscal Responsibility” submitted by the Ministry of Finance to Parliament?

A. To outline the five-year measurable targets for fiscal balances, total public debt limits, and the structural management of petroleum revenue streams.

B. To set the specific market prices for export commodities like coffee and cotton.

C. To manage the distribution of sports jerseys to local administrative football tournaments.

D. To authorize the immediate printing of emergency national currency notes without parliamentary oversight.

33. What is the primary risk of using an open, unencrypted HTTP connection instead of an HTTPS connection to upload completed household interview files?

A. Data can be intercepted and read in plain text by malicious actors on the same network path.

B. The upload speed will drop by more than half.

C. The server will automatically reject the sync request.

D. The data files will be permanently converted to an unreadable format.

34. An automated field validation script tests child immunization data arrays. The script has a true positive rate (sensitivity) of 90% for detecting structural data conflicts, and a true negative rate (specificity) of 95% for clean records. If the baseline prevalence of structural data conflicts across all submitted records is exactly 2%, what is the probability that a record flagged as conflicted by the script is actually a clean record?

A. 0.735

B. 0.1

C. 0.265

D. 2

E. 0.05

35. A man purchased a carriage and horse in Rs. 1500. By selling the horse at 10% loss and carriage at 20% profit he earned a profit of 8% on the whole transaction. What is the price of carriage (in Rs.)?

A. 900

B. 1000

C. None of these

D. 600

36. Why does UBOS prioritize the use of unique, pre-assigned Household Identification Numbers (HHIDs) across all modules during the data entry and editing phase?

A. To ensure that the enumerator’s personal tablet profile is hidden from central auditors

B. To automatically calculate the poverty index of the household without mathematical formulas

C. To act as a primary key that uniquely joins other modules without data duplication or mismatch

D. To reduce the data processing speed across server connections

37. Analyze the algorithmic pattern of the following nested numeric array: [2, 3 // 4, 1] -> 14; [5, 2 // 1, 6] -> 32; [3, 4 // 2, 5] -> 23; [6, 1 // 5, 2] -> ______

A. 12

B. 27

C. 17

D. 22

38. The staple food crop “Matooke” (highland cooking banana) is most heavily produced in which geographical macro-region of Uganda?

A. The Western and Southwestern regions

B. The northern savanna districts of Kitgum and Pader

C. The dry plains of Karamoja Sub-region

D. The central floating wetlands of Lake Kyoga

39. What does the file extension .csv stand for, and why is it preferred over standard Excel files (.xlsx) for importing data into analysis programs like Stata or R?

A. D) Coded Statistical Vector

B. C) Centralized Survey Variable

C. B) Comma-Separated Values; it is a lightweight, plain-text format universally compatible with statistics engines.

D. A) Computer System Value

40. If the probability of a field team successfully syncing their data tablet to the central server on the first attempt is 3/4, what are the odds against them syncing successfully on the first attempt?

A. 04:03

B. 01:04

C. 03:01

41. While performing diagnostic checks on a multi-variable structural equation model (SEM) tracking regional human development indices, an analyst calculates a Satorra-Bentler scaled chi-square statistic. In what specific data scenario is the Satorra-Bentler correction required?

A. When the sample size is smaller than the total number of estimated parameters.

B. When the dataset contains zero missing values and exhibits a perfect multi-variate normal distribution.

C. When the observed variables exhibit severe multi-variate non-normality or heavy kurtosis, which inflates standard chi-square goodness-of-fit statistics.

D. When all independent variables are perfectly binary.

42. A public health economist models the number of times a household member visits a medical clinic per year using a Negative Binomial regression model rather than a standard Poisson model. What data condition mathematically mandates this choice?

A. The dependent variable being a continuous floating-point parameter.

B. Equidispersion, where the variance of the count data is perfectly equal to its mean.

C. A complete absence of zero values across the entire dependent variable array.

D. Overdispersion, where the variance of the count outcome significantly exceeds the mean, violating the strict constraints of the Poisson distribution.

43. If ‘ENUMERATOR’ is encoded as ‘FOVNFSBUPS’ in a specific validation script cipher, how would the word ‘SURVEY’ be formatted by the same logic?

A. TVSWFZ

B. TVSXDZ

C. TWSWFZ

D. RUSVEX

44. A commercial poultry farm in Wakiso sells eggs to retail respondents. If the price of an egg basket drops by 10% in June and then increases by 20% in July, what is the net percentage change in the price of the egg basket from its original baseline value?

A. 6% increase

B. 12% increase

C. 8% increase

D. 2

E. 10% increase

45. Which is the best phrase for reporting uncertainty?

A. I know everything already.

B. The issue requires supervisor confirmation before final coding.

C. It is definitely fraud.

D. No need to check anything.

46.  A data analyst executes an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to evaluate the impact of microfinance access on household savings. A post-estimation test reveals a Durbin-Watson statistic of 0.65. What structural problem does this diagnostic value confirm within the model?

A. 3

B. Positive First-Order Autocorrelation among the residuals, indicating omitted time-series trends or structural misspecification.

C. Extreme Multicollinearity among the explanatory variables.

D. High Level of Heteroskedasticity in the error distribution.

E. Perfect normality of the residual distribution, validating the model.

47. A man purchased a carriage and horse in Rs. 1500. By selling the horse at 10% loss and carriage at 20% profit he earned a profit of 8% on the whole transaction. What is the price of carriage (in Rs.)?

A. 1000

B. None of these

C. 600

D. 900

48. R got 35% hike in his salary and 20% incentive on sales. If R sold goods worth Rs. 850 last year and the salary was Rs 70, then how much more does he earn this year with sales of Rs.900?

A. 454

B. 294

C. 204

D. 304

49. X shaved 40% of his customers and gave a haircut to 80%. He charged Rs.7 for a shave and Rs.5 for a hair cut. If 20% of customers who opted for a shave also had a haircut, what were the earnings if he had 75 customers?

A. None of these

B. 1020

C. 410

D. 510

50. To model the causal impact of a job training program on individual employment duration where the data is heavily right-censored (many individuals remain employed at the end of the study period), which econometric model framework must be utilized?

A. Ordinary Least Squares Linear Regression

B. Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS)

C. Survival Analysis Framework (such as a Cox Proportional Hazards Model or an Accelerated Failure Time Model).

D. Multinomial Logit Model

 

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