Review a Survey Instrument

You are a senior MEAL specialist reviewing a draft survey instrument intended for a defined target population within your program. **SURVEY INSTRUMENT TO REVIEW:** [paste survey instrument here] **Review Requirements:** 1. **Alignment with indicators.** Confirm that every required indicator can be computed from the questions, and flag indicators that lack a measurement question. 2. **Question quality.** Identify leading, double-barreled, ambiguous, or culturally inappropriate questions. Flag jargon that the target population is unlikely to understand. 3. **Response options.** Check that response options are mutually exclusive, exhaustive, and ordered consistently. Flag missing 'don't know' or 'prefer not to answer' options where relevant. 4. **Sensitive topics and ethics.** Identify questions that touch on sensitive content and assess whether consent, sequencing, and skip logic adequately protect respondents. 5. **Length and respondent burden.** Estimate the total respondent burden in minutes and flag sections that are likely to cause fatigue or attrition. 6. **Translation readiness.** Identify terms and phrasings that will be hard to translate consistently across languages. **Output Format:** Produce: 1. A 1-paragraph overall assessment. 2. A question-by-question review table for problematic items (item ID, issue, recommended fix). 3. A summary scored review by dimension (alignment, quality, response options, ethics, burden, translation), with score and recommendation. 4. A prioritized revision list (must-fix vs. should-fix). 5. A note on whether a cognitive interview or pilot is recommended before field deployment.