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.
Closing the energy gap and ending energy poverty are explicit targets of the global agenda. In this blog post, Johanna Choumert-Nkolo, explores the nature of household energy use in Tanzania in the context of the energy ladder and stacking (fuel mixing) hypotheses.
Bold action to end energy poverty could deliver massive benefits for human settlements and ecosystems…
I became interested to work with EDI as its work is closely related to my interests in survey methodology, data collection and international development research. Moreover, I was drawn by the company’s commitment to high quality standards and ethical research…
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.