Views from the Field No. 4 | Keep successfully on track: Utilising tracking tools in baseline surveys
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Drawing on our collective experience at EDI in designing baseline surveys and implementing various follow-up surveys in developing countries, we provide some practical guidelines to maximise data quality and to facilitate tracking of respondents.
Views from Research – No. 7 | Effective Evaluation of Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) in the developing world
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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
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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.
Bhoke’s Masterly Performance
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We are proud to announce that Bhoke Munanka, a member of the EDI Limited team based in our Bukoba, Tanzania office has graduated with her Masters Degree, an MBA (Master of Business Administration), from the University of Dar es Salaam. Congratulations Bhoke! In order to facilitate this success, which ultimately was dependent upon the efforts […]
Views from Research – No. 5 | Survey Methodology in Social Sciences, Data Quality, Duplicates and other topics
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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
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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
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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 the field – #3 The Importance of Interviewer Training for Data Quality
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“Data is only as reliable as the people collecting it.”
Collecting primary data through face-to-face interviews is one of the most challenging forms of data measurement. Seeing an interview as an act of asking questions and recording responses is missing the wider picture.
Views from Research – No. 3
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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
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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).