by ediglobal | Mar 21, 2019
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…
by ediglobal | Mar 5, 2019
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)…
by ediglobal | Feb 28, 2019
In this second post, we turn to one of the most commonly used types of survey paradata; timestamps…
by ediglobal | Feb 21, 2019
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…
by ediglobal | Jan 19, 2019
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.
by ediglobal | Jan 10, 2019
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.