Measuring Violent Conflict in Micro-Level Surveys : Current Practices and Methodological Challenges
This paper reviews both current practices and common challenges of measuring the causes, functioning, and consequences of violent conflict at the micro-level. The authors review existing conflict -- and violence-related survey questionnaires, with...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/25994652/measuring-violent-conflict-micro-level-surveys-current-practices-methodological-challenges http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23920 |
| Summary: | This paper reviews both current
practices and common challenges of measuring the causes,
functioning, and consequences of violent conflict at the
micro-level. The authors review existing conflict -- and
violence-related survey questionnaires, with a particular
focus on the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement
Surveys. Further, they discuss methodological challenges
associated with empirical work in conflict-affected
areas—such as operationalizing a definition of conflict,
using the appropriate units of analysis, deciding on the
timing of the survey, dealing with data biases and
conducting surveys in an ethically sound manner—and propose
ways to improve the usefulness of existing surveys to
analyze conflict processes at the micro-level. Violent
conflict, households, survey methods, questionnaire design. |
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