Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews

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. In both cases, high frequency panel data have been collected on a wide range of topics in a manner that is cost effective, flexible and rapid. Attrition has been problematic in both surveys, but can be explained by the resource and organizational constraints that both surveys faced. We analyze the drivers of attrition to generate ideas for how to improve performance in future mobile phone surveys.

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Main Authors: Hoogeveen, Johannes, Croke, Kevin, Dabalen, Andrew, Demombynes, Gabriel, Giugale, Marcelo
Format: Journal Article biblioteca
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2014-04-01
Subjects:data collection, mobile phones, household survey methods, high frequency panels,
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10986/20462
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spelling dig-okr-10986204622024-05-21T19:30:06Z Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews Hoogeveen, Johannes Croke, Kevin Dabalen, Andrew Demombynes, Gabriel Giugale, Marcelo data collection mobile phones household survey methods high frequency panels 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. In both cases, high frequency panel data have been collected on a wide range of topics in a manner that is cost effective, flexible and rapid. Attrition has been problematic in both surveys, but can be explained by the resource and organizational constraints that both surveys faced. We analyze the drivers of attrition to generate ideas for how to improve performance in future mobile phone surveys. 2014-10-21T22:21:00Z 2014-10-21T22:21:00Z 2014-04-01 Journal Article Article de journal Artículo de revista Canadian Journal of Development Studies 0225-5189 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/20462 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank application/pdf Taylor and Francis
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Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews
description 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. In both cases, high frequency panel data have been collected on a wide range of topics in a manner that is cost effective, flexible and rapid. Attrition has been problematic in both surveys, but can be explained by the resource and organizational constraints that both surveys faced. We analyze the drivers of attrition to generate ideas for how to improve performance in future mobile phone surveys.
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