We conducted the baseline survey in the little village of Battahalasur Narayanpura in the Bangalore District. The village is mainly a potters' village.
I interviewed two families that were both kannada speaking and in which the man of the house was the sole earner and worker of the house. The wives were literate but did not work towards the earning of the house. They did work like firing of the clay pots and adding enhancements on pots. I used the help of Mr. Ramkrishnappa's son, our pottery teacher, to get the forms filled and he was of great help and if h did not understand what I was saying I would just hand him the kannada form and then he would understand and get my questions answered.
These forms were designed by the goverment specifically to study handicraft centres and asked questions like economic status, loans, sources of income, education, assets, living conditions, craft related information, family related information and demographic information as well.
The form had a lot of questions about agricultural activities which were left blank in my form as the families did nothing related to agriculture or cattle rearing. Their only source of income was the pottery.
The forms made the conversation formal but it was easier to ask these questions by reading them out of a form.
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