Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Feldtage

English translation:

fieldwork days

Added to glossary by YorickJenkins
Jul 23, 2009 21:41
14 yrs ago
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German term

Feldtage

German to English Marketing Marketing Erhebung/Survey
I wonder if "field days" would be correct in what I have to translate. The context is a report on a health survey carried out by telephone by the RKI. There is a table and before the table this sentence:
"Die durchgeführten Interviews verteilten sich auf die **Feldtage** sowie die jeweils arbeitenden Interviewer wie folgt:"

The word appears again, obviously with the same meaning, as the heading of the table:
Durchgeführte Interviews / **Feldtage**

The table itself does not have the word but lists a number of days when interviews were carried out and how much time they took on average per day. I suppose that Feldtage here means days when the survey was carried out. Can we use "field days" in such a context?
Doesn't sound quite right to me.
Suggestions and comments very welcome.
YorickJenkins
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 fieldwork days
3 +1 field interviews
3 field days

Proposed translations

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fieldwork days

I do quite a lot of market research, and this is the term they use.
Example sentence:

3 : the gathering of anthropological or sociological data through the interviewing and observation of subjects in the field — field–work·er noun

Peer comment(s):

agree Ingrun Wenge : Yes
9 hrs
agree Steffen Walter
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field interviews

I think you need to come up with a workaround. The term in English is field interviews. So something like "field interview days" may work.
Peer comment(s):

agree Alexander Schleber (X) : Within the context, yes.
10 hrs
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field days

I suppose you're right.
http://www.google.pt/search?hl=pt-PT&q=Interviews through th...
Feldtag {m}
field day - http://www.dict.cc/german-english/Feldtag.html
http://www.onelook.com/?w=field day &ls=a


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Note added at 20 mins (2009-07-23 22:02:41 GMT)
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Interviews during/throught/at the Field day/days
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