Views from Research – No. 9 | How to improve survey data quality?
The 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) was held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 17th to 21st July 2017. In the first part of this blog post I provide a summary of the ESRA 2017 conference. Secondly, I share some thoughts on assessing data quality and how data quality is defined.
Views from Research – No. 8 | Five podcasts and videos on the importance of more and better data in the Global South
Data itself will not solve development challenges, but they should inform decision making and enhance development policies. Here are some insightful, publicly available, videos and podcasts on how to collect, process and make use of data.
Views from Research – No. 7 | Effective Evaluation of Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) in the developing world
Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) is a major area for health development and despite expansions in health services across developing countries, improvements in MNH in these countries have been slow.
Views from Research – No. 6 | Dealing with surveys on sensitive topics
The question of how to deal with asking sensitive questions is an important one in the evolving field of survey based research. EDI has recently conducted several surveys on sensitive topics and this blog has been written to share a few insights.
Views from Research – No. 5 | Survey Methodology in Social Sciences, Data Quality, Duplicates and other topics
by Dr. Johanna Choumert Nkolo and Callum Taylor EDI recently participated in the 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology. The conference was organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee RC33 on Logic and Methodology and was held at the University of Leicester between the 11-16th September 2016. There were more than 50 sessions, […]
Views from Research – No. 4 | FAERE 2016
By Dr. Johanna Choumert-Nkolo I have recently returned from the 3rd Annual FAERE (French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists) Conference, held in Bordeaux between the 8th and 9th of September 2016. The conference was organized this year by GREThA (Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée) and Irstea (Institut national de rechercheen sciences et […]
EDI ENHANCE EDUCATION INITIATIVE
Standard 6 and 7 pupils at Bugambakamoi Primary School in Kitendagulo ward, Bukoba are enjoying their school lessons in comfort thanks to the provision of new school desks by EDI. The new desks have been donated in response to a national school desk initiative which aims to ensure that the number of desks keeps up […]
Views from Research – No. 3
Deploying Surveybe’s Structural Functionality for Complex School Questionnaires.
I have recently converted some of the largest, most complex questionnaires I have ever encountered into the latest version of Surveybe.
Views from research – No. 2
3 days at the Oxford CSAE conference Johanna CHOUMERT NKOLO The CSAE Conference 2016: Economic Development in Africa was held in Oxford this week (20th – 22nd March 2016).
EDI Research Team Blog – How to minimize attrition and non-response rates in mobile phone surveys?
EDI | Enabling Decisions Insightfully | Views from the field | No. 1 How to minimize attrition and non-response rates in mobile phone surveys? Experiences from the field Johanna CHOUMERT NKOLO, Céline GUIMAS, Amy KAHN, Caitlin MCKEE, Caitlin SPENCE Mobile phone surveys are becoming increasingly popular as a cheaper means of gathering household data […]