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A New Year and EDI’s Continued Data Quality Assurances
This year, 2018, sees EDI continue its research and data collection activities across a variety of sectors. We look forward to engaging with new clients and building on successful relationships with existing partners across East Africa and beyond; whilst always ensuring that the data we collect is accurate and of high quality.
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Seasons Greetings and looking ahead to 2018…
Seasons Greetings to everyone from all of us at the EDI Group and best wishes for the New Year
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Autumn Update from the EDI Group
Exciting updates from the field, new project engagements and much more in EDI’s Autumn 2017 newsletter.
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Work with us – Android Developer sought
Android/Java Developer Android | SDK | Android Studio | JSON/REST/API | SQL | Agile Preferable - Java 8 | HTML 5 | Vertx | Junit | angularjs Company Introduction: Economic Development Initiatives (EDI) Ltd specialises in the development of data collection and survey...
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EDI Research Team complete “Protecting Human Research Participants” training course
We are pleased to announce that all of our key research personnel have now completed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research training course “Protecting Human Research Participants”.
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My Internship at EDI so far
Elena Perra joins us from the Erasmus+ per traineeship programme ran by the University of Florence of which EDI is a non-academic partner. Read Elena’s blog post about her first few months at EDI…
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Call for applications: GLODEP intake for 2018-2020 has launched!
EDI is an international consortium partner for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in International Development Studies (GLODEP) – a two-year multidisciplinary master programme in development studies, with an economic grounding and policy perspective. The application for the 2018-2020 intake has now opened.
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Does loss of a father have a greater impact on a child’s self-esteem than loss of a mother?
The publication of Orphanhood and Self-Esteem: An 18-Year Longitudinal Study From an HIV-Affected Area in Tanzania by Joachim De Weerdt, Kathleen Beegle and Stefan Dercon, brings the total number of research papers published based on the data documented from the Kagera Health and Development Survey (KHDS) to 110.
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EDI welcomes Elena Perra
We are delighted to welcome Elena Perra to the EDI team.
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Views from Research – No. 10 | Tackling non-standard units with Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)
Most of us can recall, relatively accurately, the quantities of consumption items we purchase; a kilo of sugar or a litre of milk. However, in many surveys in developing countries, quantities are expressed in non-standard units; such as ‘small heap of tomatoes’ and ‘medium bunch of bananas’. This leads to ambiguous item-unit combinations which are then subject to individual interpretation of what constitutes ‘small,’ ‘medium’, ‘large’.
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