Remote surveying during COVID-19 (Part 1/2)
On March 16, 2020, Tanzania reported its first official case of COVID-19. It was inevitable in the context of an accelerating pandemic, but …
13 Tips for Conducting an Effective Online Enumerator Training
The first half of 2020 has brought about massive changes to all areas of our lives – both personally and professionally. Businesses across all sectors have had to adapt to the restrictions put in place by Governments to reduce the spread of…
Piloting a Survey: Thoughts and Recommendations
The importance of piloting a survey can often be overlooked, but it is one of the most crucial project phases when seeking to deliver high quality data from a large-scale data collection….
Views from Research No. 16 | Implementing a school survey
Over the years, EDI has implemented numerous surveys focused on the learning outcomes of children and adolescents, and related topics such as youth empowerment. In this blog post, we provide a few tips and recommendations to researchers wishing to conduct school surveys…
Views from Research No. 15 | Building a questionnaire for a household survey: a check-list (part 2/2)
Socio-economic status of respondents is a key variable of economic models, and yet perhaps the most difficult to measure. Part 2 in our household questionnaire check-list…
Views from Research No. 15 | Building a questionnaire for a household survey: a check-list (part 1/2)
Have you carefully thought about the definition of “a household”? This might sound like a trivial question, but the social and statistical constructions of a household greatly vary between and within countries…
Views from Research No. 14 | Using Paradata to Collect Better Survey Data: Evidence from a Household Survey in Tanzania (3/3) | How can GIS be used to improve quality of field based data collection?
In this third post, in our mini blog post series, on how to use paradata to improve survey data quality, we turn to another key element of paradata, namely Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates processed using Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)…
Views from Research No. 13 | Using Paradata to Collect Better Survey Data: Evidence from a Household Survey in Tanzania (2/3) | Timestamps – what are they good for?
In this second post, we turn to one of the most commonly used types of survey paradata; timestamps…
Views from Research No. 12 | Using Paradata to Collect Better Survey Data: Evidence from a Household Survey in Tanzania (1/3) | What are paradata?
In this mini blog post series, we present the results from our new paper in which we shed light on how to use paradata to improve survey data quality…
The Challenges and Opportunities for Collecting Survey Data in Sub-Saharan Africa
Guest blog post from Sarah Hughes, Senior Fellow at Mathematica, discusses how methods and fieldwork training for local data collectors, mobile device usage, and the expansion of communication networks in sub-Saharan Africa are opportunities that researchers can leverage to overcome survey data collection challenges in the region.