Field testing of pre-Enumeration Areas created using semi-automated delineation approach, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Despite the identified limitations and the challenges encountered in the field, the findings from the field test were generally consistent, with the pre-EAs created by the semi-automated approach found to be suitable for population enumeration in the field. [...] The team was able to follow the boundary in this area and identify when the boundary had been reached, for example where the road intersected with the boundary in the west of the pre-EA. [...] Issues were noted with the current quartier boundaries at the Kingu site where differences existed between the extent of the area designated as the quartier of Kingu in the BCR quartier boundary dataset and on the ground. [...] For example, in the pre- EA 064 at the Dumi site, household locations recorded by the GPS are on the north side of the road, whereas in reality the fieldworker was located on the south side of the road (the road forms the northern boundary of the pre-EA 064). [...] In rural areas, the coverage of the generated MBTiles was too small for some of the pre-EAs, such that there were issues navigating to the pre-EAs from the surrounding area, which made it difficult for the team to find them in the field.