Social Assessments and Program Evaluation with Limited Formal Data : Thinking Quantitatively, Acting Qualitatively

Social Assessments and Program Evaluation with Limited Formal Data : Thinking Quantitatively, Acting Qualitatively

This note revisits the long-standing tension between qualitative and quantitative approaches to poverty analysis, with reference to social assessments and program evaluation. It presents a summary of recent work in St. Lucia and Colombia, where inn...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
SOCIAL ANALYSIS
QUALITATIVE CRITERIA
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
POVERTY ANALYSIS
PROGRAM EVALUATION
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
LOW INCOME COUNTRIES
RURAL AREAS
URBAN AREAS
CLEAN WATER
POOR HOUSEHOLDS BASIC
BENEFICIARIES
CENSUS DATA
COMMUNITIES
COMMUNITY PROFILES
CONSULTATION
DEVELOPMENT NETWORK
DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
GROUP INTERVIEWS
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
INCOME
INCOME COUNTRIES
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
LOCAL CAPACITY
OUTCOME VARIABLES
PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES
PARTICIPATORY POVERTY
PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENTS
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR COMMUNITIES
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
POVERTY ASSESSMENTS
PROGRAM EFFECTS
PROGRAMS
QUALITATIVE APPROACHES
QUALITATIVE MATERIAL
QUALITATIVE METHODS
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES
QUANTITATIVE DATA
RANDOM SAMPLE
SOCIAL ASSESSMENT
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/07/2819774/social-assessments-program-evaluation-limited-formal-data-thinking-quantitatively-acting-qualitatively
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11376

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/07/2819774/social-assessments-program-evaluation-limited-formal-data-thinking-quantitatively-acting-qualitatively
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11376

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