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Luz Azlor del Valle: Being Part of EDI!
We welcome Assistant Research Officer, Luz Azlor del Valle, to the EDI team! In this blog post, Luz reflects on her new journey with EDI!
EDI Global Newsletter June 2019
Recent news from EDI – project updates from the field, blog posts and much more…
Views from Research No. 16 | Implementing a school survey
Over the years, EDI has implemented numerous surveys focused on the learning outcomes of children and adolescents, and related topics such as youth empowerment. In this blog post, we provide a few tips and recommendations to researchers wishing to conduct school surveys…
Views from Research No. 15 | Building a questionnaire for a household survey: a check-list (part 2/2)
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…
Views from Research No. 15 | Building a questionnaire for a household survey: a check-list (part 1/2)
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…
EDI: My First Impressions
We welcome Research Officer, Sophie Diarra, to the EDI team! In this blog post, Sophie reflects on her first few weeks at EDI.
Views from the Field No. 9 | Keeping your survey on track when the internet lets you down
With the launch of the highly anticipated surveybe release 6 later this year, I’ve been reflecting on the merits of both online and offline data collection modes…
The EDI Group Newsletter March 2019
Recent news from EDI – introducing new team members, project updates from the field, blog posts and much more…
#BalanceforBetter on International Women’s Day
The theme for International Women’s Day 2019 is #BalanceforBetter. The message? We should all strive toward a gender-balanced world, in all societies and all places—in the media, sports, and in many other areas— through education, business, and government: better the balance, better the world.
Views from Research No. 14 | Using Paradata to Collect Better Survey Data: Evidence from a Household Survey in Tanzania (3/3) | How can GIS be used to improve quality of field based data collection?
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)…