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…
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…
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)…
In this second post, we turn to one of the most commonly used types of survey paradata; timestamps…
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…
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.