Pilot research on the older adults in Purworejo was carried out by SurveyMETER during the end of July and the beginning of August 2011. With funding from The Asia Foundation's (TAF) AusAID Knowledge Sector Program, SurveyMETER carried out this self-initiated (independent) research study. This survey included 200 respondents who were 50 years of age or older and was undertaken in a single village in the Purworejo Regency.

Instead of utilizing paper questionnaires, generally known as the Paper-And-Pencil Interview (PAPI) approach, the Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) method was also tested for data collection in this study, where the interviewer reads the questions out loud to the respondent and simultaneously types their answers into the laptop. The CAPI Study is the term that is used to refer to this research most frequently. Most of SurveyMETER's leading researchers served as interviewers for this study.

The Indonesia Family Life Survey's fifth round (IFLS-5), which is also expected to employ the CAPI method, was designed with the help of the 2011 CAPI study. Book 3B, one of the numerous individual respondent instrument books in IFLS, contains the questionnaire for the CAPI trial elderly research.

Three weekends in 2011—the 18–20 July, 27–30 July, and 4–5 August—were dedicated to field studies, comprising eighteen senior research staff members and field research assistants. (JF)