Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews
As mobile phone ownership rates have risen in Africa, there is increased interest in using mobile telephony as a data collection platform. This paper draws on two pilot projects that use mobile phone interviews for data collection in Tanzania and S...
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okr-10986-93132021-04-23T14:02:45Z Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews Croke, Kevin Dabalen, Andrew Demombybes, Gabriel Giugale, Marcelo Hoogeveen, Johannes ACCOUNTABILITY BANDWIDTH BENEFICIARIES BROADCAST BROADCASTS CALL CENTER CALL CENTERS CALL CENTRE CAPABILITY CELL PHONE CHANGE CITY GOVERNMENT CIVIL SOCIETY CONNECTIVITY DATA COLLECTION DATA ENTRY DISCUSSIONS DOMAIN ELECTRICITY ENUMERATORS FIGURES FLEXIBILITY FOOD SECURITY GOOD GOVERNANCE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INNOVATION INTERVIEWS JOURNALISTS LIMITED ACCESS LISTENING MOBILE PHONE MOBILE PHONES MOBILE TELEPHONY NETWORKS NEW TECHNOLOGY OPEN ACCESS OPINIONS PENETRATION RATES PERCEPTION PHONE PENETRATION PILOT PROJECTS POVERTY REDUCTION PREPARATION PRICE INFORMATION PROGRAM EVALUATION PROTOCOL PROTOCOLS RAW DATA RECONSTRUCTION REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE RESEARCH METHODS RESPONSE RATES RESULTS SAMPLE SIZE SERVER SERVICE DELIVERY SURVEY DATA SURVEY RESEARCH SURVEY RESULTS SURVEY SAMPLE TELEPHONE TRANSMISSION USERS USES VILLAGE WEB As mobile phone ownership rates have risen in Africa, there is increased interest in using mobile telephony as a data collection platform. This paper draws on two pilot projects that use mobile phone interviews for data collection in Tanzania and South Sudan. The experience was largely a success. High frequency panel data have been collected on a wide range of topics in a manner that is cost effective, flexible (questions can be changed over time) and rapid. And once households respond to the mobile phone interviews, they tend not to drop out: even after 33 rounds of interviews in the Tanzania survey, respondent fatigue proved not to be an issue. Attrition and non-response have been an issue in the Tanzania survey, but in ways that are related to the way this survey was originally set up and that are fixable. Data and reports from the Tanzania survey are available online and can be downloaded from: www.listeningtodar.org. 2012-06-29T18:52:51Z 2012-06-29T18:52:51Z 2012-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/06/16396424/collecting-high-frequency-panel-data-africa-using-mobile-phone-interviews http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9313 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper; No. 6097 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa |
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ACCOUNTABILITY BANDWIDTH BENEFICIARIES BROADCAST BROADCASTS CALL CENTER CALL CENTERS CALL CENTRE CAPABILITY CELL PHONE CHANGE CITY GOVERNMENT CIVIL SOCIETY CONNECTIVITY DATA COLLECTION DATA ENTRY DISCUSSIONS DOMAIN ELECTRICITY ENUMERATORS FIGURES FLEXIBILITY FOOD SECURITY GOOD GOVERNANCE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INNOVATION INTERVIEWS JOURNALISTS LIMITED ACCESS LISTENING MOBILE PHONE MOBILE PHONES MOBILE TELEPHONY NETWORKS NEW TECHNOLOGY OPEN ACCESS OPINIONS PENETRATION RATES PERCEPTION PHONE PENETRATION PILOT PROJECTS POVERTY REDUCTION PREPARATION PRICE INFORMATION PROGRAM EVALUATION PROTOCOL PROTOCOLS RAW DATA RECONSTRUCTION REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE RESEARCH METHODS RESPONSE RATES RESULTS SAMPLE SIZE SERVER SERVICE DELIVERY SURVEY DATA SURVEY RESEARCH SURVEY RESULTS SURVEY SAMPLE TELEPHONE TRANSMISSION USERS USES VILLAGE WEB |
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ACCOUNTABILITY BANDWIDTH BENEFICIARIES BROADCAST BROADCASTS CALL CENTER CALL CENTERS CALL CENTRE CAPABILITY CELL PHONE CHANGE CITY GOVERNMENT CIVIL SOCIETY CONNECTIVITY DATA COLLECTION DATA ENTRY DISCUSSIONS DOMAIN ELECTRICITY ENUMERATORS FIGURES FLEXIBILITY FOOD SECURITY GOOD GOVERNANCE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INNOVATION INTERVIEWS JOURNALISTS LIMITED ACCESS LISTENING MOBILE PHONE MOBILE PHONES MOBILE TELEPHONY NETWORKS NEW TECHNOLOGY OPEN ACCESS OPINIONS PENETRATION RATES PERCEPTION PHONE PENETRATION PILOT PROJECTS POVERTY REDUCTION PREPARATION PRICE INFORMATION PROGRAM EVALUATION PROTOCOL PROTOCOLS RAW DATA RECONSTRUCTION REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE RESEARCH METHODS RESPONSE RATES RESULTS SAMPLE SIZE SERVER SERVICE DELIVERY SURVEY DATA SURVEY RESEARCH SURVEY RESULTS SURVEY SAMPLE TELEPHONE TRANSMISSION USERS USES VILLAGE WEB Croke, Kevin Dabalen, Andrew Demombybes, Gabriel Giugale, Marcelo Hoogeveen, Johannes Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews |
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As mobile phone ownership rates have
risen in Africa, there is increased interest in using mobile
telephony as a data collection platform. This paper draws on
two pilot projects that use mobile phone interviews for data
collection in Tanzania and South Sudan. The experience was
largely a success. High frequency panel data have been
collected on a wide range of topics in a manner that is cost
effective, flexible (questions can be changed over time) and
rapid. And once households respond to the mobile phone
interviews, they tend not to drop out: even after 33 rounds
of interviews in the Tanzania survey, respondent fatigue
proved not to be an issue. Attrition and non-response have
been an issue in the Tanzania survey, but in ways that are
related to the way this survey was originally set up and
that are fixable. Data and reports from the Tanzania survey
are available online and can be downloaded from: www.listeningtodar.org. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Croke, Kevin Dabalen, Andrew Demombybes, Gabriel Giugale, Marcelo Hoogeveen, Johannes |
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Croke, Kevin Dabalen, Andrew Demombybes, Gabriel Giugale, Marcelo Hoogeveen, Johannes |
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Croke, Kevin |
| title |
Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews |
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Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews |
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Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews |
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Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews |
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Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews |
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collecting high frequency panel data in africa using mobile phone interviews |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/06/16396424/collecting-high-frequency-panel-data-africa-using-mobile-phone-interviews http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9313 |
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