turns out our universe and sampling frame is off. not by some ten facilities but a little less than 400 facilities. damn. And boss still wants us to call all those facilities. It took us three weeks to call 275 facilities. It's annoying because the agency which commissioned this work should have given us this information months ago or corrected us that the universe is not just 300 facilities. Getting the sampling frame wrong is such a rookie mistake. damn it. I should have known better. But no use crying over spilled milk. We just need to move forward.

But I do hope that we won't need to call all those other facilities. Can we just call those facilities that have missing information? If the local departments can provide us with complete information enough to perform sampling then we just call the facilities that are included in the sample. We can call all the other facilities but it shouldn't delay the data collection.

Besides we still need to do a whole lot of stuff. Whoever can  give a suitable Filipino translation of the phrase "model the cost-effectiveness" gets a Magnum bar.