How to Effectively Programme CAPI Questionnaires
Programming a survey entails more than merely replicating the paper version as an electronic format. There are various aspects you need to think about when programming the survey instrument.
Improving Measures of Household Food Consumption: Measuring Food-Away-From-Home in Household Surveys
Research shows that the majority of household surveys do not sufficiently …
Merging Data Sets at Different Levels in Stata
Have you ever been collecting data and needed to create one final dataset for your analysis?…
Strategies for Reducing Attrition Rates in Tracking Surveys
Attrition is one of the biggest challenges that researchers face when implementing longitudinal….
11 Tips for Conducting COVID-safe Focus Group Discussions
Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) are more complex to adapt as remote surveys compared to one-on-one interviews…
SMS Surveying: Lessons Learnt in Tanzania
In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the transition from in-person to mobile surveys has been possible thanks to a spectacular increase…
SMS Surveying: Logistics
SMS surveys are fast and easy to implement without the need for field logistics and personnel for conducting the survey…
SMS Surveying: Design
The use of remote data collection in conducting survey research has accelerated with the COVID-19 global pandemic…
Keeping the Data Flowing in a Pandemic
Last year, the global COVID-19 pandemic resulted in unprecedented disruption to travel, curfews, lockdowns, restrictions on large gatherings and social distancing…
Remote surveying during COVID-19 (Part 2/2)
In the first post in this series, we described some of the challenges we faced with a rapid pivot to remote surveying during the COVID-19 pandemic …