New paradigms for household surveys in low- and middle-income countries
Understanding the multiple dimensions of the development process is based on a fundamental need: quality data…
Our research and MEL teams regularly write blogs on technical topics, fieldwork best practices, and to highlight key learnings and takeaways from our project implementation. In addition to exploring our blog posts, you can also find information on publications relating to large datasets we have collected, such as the Kagera Health and Development Survey (KHDS).
Understanding the multiple dimensions of the development process is based on a fundamental need: quality data…
Obtaining informed consent is key to the process of protecting survey respondents and to the validity of the research. Research respondent protection and data protection has always been central to EDI’s ethos…
In this Views from the Field blog post we explore Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and how they can be applied to survey design…
In this most recent post in EDI’s Views from Research blog series we explore the challenges faced and appropriate solutions when implementing firm surveys and how they differ from household surveys.
At EDI, we strive to provide the highest data quality by using and contributing to international best practices for questionnaire design, sampling, interviewer training, quality control, monitoring of paradata, etc.
Collecting high quality data in developing countries is a crucial challenge for monitoring and assessing development policies…
In the era of dematerialisation (i.e. a paperless era), ensuring the security of data collected in field is paramount. The recent examples of major data breaches and cyber-attacks calls for even further reflection and review of protocols to manage and store personally identifiable information.
A new paper co-authored by EDI’s Co-Founder Joachim De Weerdt along with Jed Friedman, Kathleen Beegle and John Gibson addresses food consumption data, measurements, response error, and how findings from a randomised survey experiment in Tanzania can influence survey design.
We are pleased to announce that all of our key research personnel have now completed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research training course “Protecting Human Research Participants”.
Elena Perra joins us from the Erasmus+ per traineeship programme ran by the University of Florence of which EDI is a non-academic partner. Read Elena’s blog post about her first few months at EDI…
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