Fieldwork subcontractor · Polokwane & surrounds, Limpopo

Face-to-face and WhatsApp data collection in Limpopo, carried out to your specification.

Wedall Data offers subcontracted fieldwork to research firms, agencies, brands and public-sector bodies: structured face-to-face intercepts and WhatsApp polls and surveys, separately or combined, with documented sampling, POPIA-aligned consent and clean, analysis-ready data.

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  • Systematic respondent selection with soft quotas
  • Time-stamped interviews
  • Multilingual fieldwork
  • WhatsApp polls & surveys

Services

Face-to-face intercepts and WhatsApp surveys

We interview respondents in person at busy public locations and run polls and surveys on WhatsApp, following your questionnaire, screening criteria and quotas.

Shopping centre intercepts

Interviews with shoppers at shopping centres, where the venue gives permission.

Campus intercepts

Interviews with students at university and college campuses, where the institution gives permission.

Retail & community intercepts

Interviews at supermarket entrances, taxi ranks and other community locations, where permission is obtained.

WhatsApp polls & surveys

Short polls and surveys that respondents choose to join from a link or QR code on their own phones, run on their own or combined with face-to-face fieldwork.

Example study topics

  • Shopping behaviour and store choice
  • Brand awareness and preferences
  • Media consumption
  • Household purchasing

Questionnaire adaptation

Our field-ready intercept questionnaires can be adapted to your brief, or we can work with your questionnaire as supplied, including for tender submissions that require a documented methodology and quality controls.

Fieldwork languages: Sepedi (Northern Sotho), Xitsonga, Tshivenda and English.

How we work

A documented, repeatable methodology

Whether in person, on WhatsApp or both, each project follows the same documented approach, so you know how respondents will be selected and how the data will be checked.

  1. 1

    Brief & questionnaire

    We confirm objectives, target respondents and quotas, agree on face-to-face, WhatsApp or both, and adapt or review the questionnaire.

  2. 2

    Interviewer briefing

    Interviewers are briefed and practise the questionnaire and consent script before fieldwork starts.

  3. 3

    Respondent selection

    For intercepts, interviewers approach every nth person passing a fixed point (or use time-based selection), screen them against the study criteria and apply soft quotas for age and gender. Intercept samples are non-probability samples, so results describe the people interviewed and are not statistically representative of the wider population.

  4. 4

    Fieldwork

    For intercepts, we plan for 80–120 completed interviews per location, with every approach, refusal and refusal reason logged. WhatsApp respondents join through a link or QR code that we provide.

  5. 5

    Checks & delivery

    Data is reviewed daily, checked against interview timestamps, cleaned and handed over with a full methodology note.

Quality & POPIA

Quality and privacy built in

Quality controls

  • Interviewer briefing and practice before fieldwork
  • A supervisor present for part of each fieldwork day
  • Every interview is time-stamped
  • Daily data review and refusal log
  • GPS/location stamp of the fieldwork site or a photo of the interview set-up (with venue permission; respondents are not identifiable in photos)

POPIA-aligned by design

  • Every interview opens with a consent script written with POPIA in mind
  • Consent (yes/no) is recorded on every questionnaire, and the interview proceeds only if the respondent agrees
  • Face-to-face responses are anonymous, and all responses are used for research purposes only
  • No personal identifiers (name, phone, ID) are collected in face-to-face interviews
  • Respondents may stop at any time
  • WhatsApp surveys are opt-in: respondents choose to start the survey from a link or QR code that we provide, and can stop at any time
  • We do not keep WhatsApp respondents’ phone numbers in our records or datasets, and do not share them with anyone, including clients
  • Survey response data is kept for 12 months, then deleted

Deliverables

What you will receive

Clear, analysis-ready outputs and the documentation to support them.

Methodology note

How respondents were sampled, quotas applied and fieldwork conducted.

Fieldwork outcome summary

People approached, eligible, completed interviews, refusals and refusal reasons by location, with cooperation and refusal rates.

Clean dataset

Excel or CSV file with a codebook (variable names and answer codes).

Key findings summary

On request: a short summary of the main results in tables or charts.

Timestamp & supervisor log

Interview timestamp log plus supervisor field notes.

Field photos

Photos of the interview set-up and field team, taken with venue permission. Respondents are not identifiable in photos.

Coverage area

Polokwane and surrounding areas

Wedall Data is an online business with no physical office. Face-to-face fieldwork starts in Polokwane, Seshego and Mankweng, and other locations in Limpopo can be discussed on request. Because WhatsApp surveys are joined by link or QR code, they are not limited to these areas.

  • PolokwaneShopping centres, CBD retail and taxi ranks
  • SeshegoCommunity and retail locations
  • MankwengCampus and community locations
  • Elsewhere in LimpopoOther locations on request

Contact

Tell us about your project

Share your brief, target respondents, locations and timelines, and we will get back to you with a fieldwork proposal and quote. Wedall Data operates online, so all enquiries are handled by email.

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