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WORKSHOP ON CONDUCTING A LARGE-SCALE SURVEY ON OLDER PERSONS: 

EXPERIENCE FROM THE MALAYSIA AGEING AND RETIREMENT SURVEY

Empowering Nations to Conduct Large-Scale Surveys on Older Persons
7–9 December 2021 | Virtual Event | Hosted from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

As Asia faces rapid population ageing, this workshop marks a vital step in building regional capacity to generate high-quality, comparable data to inform evidence-based policies for older persons.

The Social Wellbeing Research Centre (SWRC), in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), successfully conducted a three-day capacity-building workshop to support regional partners in planning and implementing national ageing surveys. The virtual workshop included 35 participants from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam, including researchers, government officials, survey practitioners, and policymakers.

Workshop Highlights

• Objective:
  To build capacity in conducting large-scale, longitudinal surveys on older adults that are cross-nationally comparable and rooted in best practices from the Malaysia Ageing and Retirement Survey (MARS).

• Core Topics Covered:

  • Study Design and Sampling

  • Questionnaire Development and Translation

  • Fieldwork Planning and Interviewer Training

  • Production, CAPI (Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing), and Quality Control

  • Post-Production Data Management

• Engaging Learning Methods:

  • Interactive lectures and group discussions by MARS project team: Professor Datuk Norma Mansor, Dr. Halimah Awang, Dr.Yamunah Devi Apalasamy, Ms.Nur Fakhrina Ab Rashid,  Ms. Tan Lih Yong and Mr.Tan Chin Lung. 

  • Country-level group discussions and proposal development

  • Quizzes to assess understanding

  • Final presentations from each country team