Cutting Costs, Boosting Quality and Collecting Data Real-Time : Lessons from a Cell Phone-Based Beneficiary Survey to Strengthen Guatemala’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program

A 2010 country governance and Anti-Corruption (CGAC) funded pilot in Guatemala employed entry-level mobile phones in conjunction with Episurveyor, a free, web-based software for data collection, to drastically reduce costs, facilitate accuracy and...

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Main Authors:	Schuster, Christian, Perez Brito, Carlos
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS PRIVILEGES BOUNDARIES BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITIES CELL PHONE CELL-PHONE CELL-PHONES COMMUNITIES COMPUTER SKILLS COMPUTER SYSTEM CONFIDENTIALITY COST SAVINGS DATA AGGREGATION DATA ANALYSIS DATA COLLECTION DATA ENTRY DATA TRANSMISSION DECISION MAKING DIGITAL ASSISTANTS DIGITIZATION DISTANCE EDUCATION FINANCIAL SERVICES FIXED-LINE INFRASTRUCTURE FREE SOFTWARE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM GPS HOST HOST SERVERS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION INSTITUTION INTERNATIONAL BANK LEARNING LEGAL STATUS LITERACY MARKET INFORMATION MOBILE DEVICES MOBILE PHONE MOBILE PHONE USERS MOBILE PHONES PACKET RADIO PACKET RADIO SERVICE PASSWORD PROGRAMS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION QUALITY CONTROL REAL-TIME DATA SERVER SERVERS TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES TRAINING WORKSHOP TRANSMISSION TYPES OF USERS UBIQUITOUS ACCESS USER USERS WEB WEB BROWSER WEB INTERFACE WEBSITE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/02/13950430/cutting-costs-boosting-quality-collecting-data-real-time-lessons-cell-phone-based-beneficiary-survey-strengthen-guatemalas-conditional-cash-transfer-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10111

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spelling	okr-10986-101112021-04-23T14:02:48Z Cutting Costs, Boosting Quality and Collecting Data Real-Time : Lessons from a Cell Phone-Based Beneficiary Survey to Strengthen Guatemala’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program Schuster, Christian Perez Brito, Carlos ACCESS PRIVILEGES BOUNDARIES BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITIES CELL PHONE CELL-PHONE CELL-PHONES COMMUNITIES COMPUTER SKILLS COMPUTER SYSTEM CONFIDENTIALITY COST SAVINGS DATA AGGREGATION DATA ANALYSIS DATA COLLECTION DATA ENTRY DATA TRANSMISSION DECISION MAKING DIGITAL ASSISTANTS DIGITIZATION DISTANCE EDUCATION FINANCIAL SERVICES FIXED-LINE INFRASTRUCTURE FREE SOFTWARE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM GPS HOST HOST SERVERS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION INSTITUTION INTERNATIONAL BANK LEARNING LEGAL STATUS LITERACY MARKET INFORMATION MOBILE DEVICES MOBILE PHONE MOBILE PHONE USERS MOBILE PHONES PACKET RADIO PACKET RADIO SERVICE PASSWORD PROGRAMS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION QUALITY CONTROL REAL-TIME DATA SERVER SERVERS TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES TRAINING WORKSHOP TRANSMISSION TYPES OF USERS UBIQUITOUS ACCESS USER USERS WEB WEB BROWSER WEB INTERFACE WEBSITE A 2010 country governance and Anti-Corruption (CGAC) funded pilot in Guatemala employed entry-level mobile phones in conjunction with Episurveyor, a free, web-based software for data collection, to drastically reduce costs, facilitate accuracy and accelerate implementation of a nationally-representative beneficiary survey of Guatemala's conditional cash transfer program. As such it illustrates the potential of mobile phone-based data collection to strengthen program monitoring, evaluation and implementation, in particular in remote and marginalized areas highly populated by indigenous peoples. 2012-08-13T10:27:05Z 2012-08-13T10:27:05Z 2011-02 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/02/13950430/cutting-costs-boosting-quality-collecting-data-real-time-lessons-cell-phone-based-beneficiary-survey-strengthen-guatemalas-conditional-cash-transfer-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10111 English en breve; No. 166 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Guatemala
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topic	ACCESS PRIVILEGES BOUNDARIES BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITIES CELL PHONE CELL-PHONE CELL-PHONES COMMUNITIES COMPUTER SKILLS COMPUTER SYSTEM CONFIDENTIALITY COST SAVINGS DATA AGGREGATION DATA ANALYSIS DATA COLLECTION DATA ENTRY DATA TRANSMISSION DECISION MAKING DIGITAL ASSISTANTS DIGITIZATION DISTANCE EDUCATION FINANCIAL SERVICES FIXED-LINE INFRASTRUCTURE FREE SOFTWARE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM GPS HOST HOST SERVERS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION INSTITUTION INTERNATIONAL BANK LEARNING LEGAL STATUS LITERACY MARKET INFORMATION MOBILE DEVICES MOBILE PHONE MOBILE PHONE USERS MOBILE PHONES PACKET RADIO PACKET RADIO SERVICE PASSWORD PROGRAMS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION QUALITY CONTROL REAL-TIME DATA SERVER SERVERS TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES TRAINING WORKSHOP TRANSMISSION TYPES OF USERS UBIQUITOUS ACCESS USER USERS WEB WEB BROWSER WEB INTERFACE WEBSITE
spellingShingle	ACCESS PRIVILEGES BOUNDARIES BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITIES CELL PHONE CELL-PHONE CELL-PHONES COMMUNITIES COMPUTER SKILLS COMPUTER SYSTEM CONFIDENTIALITY COST SAVINGS DATA AGGREGATION DATA ANALYSIS DATA COLLECTION DATA ENTRY DATA TRANSMISSION DECISION MAKING DIGITAL ASSISTANTS DIGITIZATION DISTANCE EDUCATION FINANCIAL SERVICES FIXED-LINE INFRASTRUCTURE FREE SOFTWARE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM GPS HOST HOST SERVERS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION INSTITUTION INTERNATIONAL BANK LEARNING LEGAL STATUS LITERACY MARKET INFORMATION MOBILE DEVICES MOBILE PHONE MOBILE PHONE USERS MOBILE PHONES PACKET RADIO PACKET RADIO SERVICE PASSWORD PROGRAMS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION QUALITY CONTROL REAL-TIME DATA SERVER SERVERS TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES TRAINING WORKSHOP TRANSMISSION TYPES OF USERS UBIQUITOUS ACCESS USER USERS WEB WEB BROWSER WEB INTERFACE WEBSITE Schuster, Christian Perez Brito, Carlos Cutting Costs, Boosting Quality and Collecting Data Real-Time : Lessons from a Cell Phone-Based Beneficiary Survey to Strengthen Guatemala’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program
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description	A 2010 country governance and Anti-Corruption (CGAC) funded pilot in Guatemala employed entry-level mobile phones in conjunction with Episurveyor, a free, web-based software for data collection, to drastically reduce costs, facilitate accuracy and accelerate implementation of a nationally-representative beneficiary survey of Guatemala's conditional cash transfer program. As such it illustrates the potential of mobile phone-based data collection to strengthen program monitoring, evaluation and implementation, in particular in remote and marginalized areas highly populated by indigenous peoples.
format	Publications & Research :: Brief
author	Schuster, Christian Perez Brito, Carlos
author_facet	Schuster, Christian Perez Brito, Carlos
author_sort	Schuster, Christian
title	Cutting Costs, Boosting Quality and Collecting Data Real-Time : Lessons from a Cell Phone-Based Beneficiary Survey to Strengthen Guatemala’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program
title_short	Cutting Costs, Boosting Quality and Collecting Data Real-Time : Lessons from a Cell Phone-Based Beneficiary Survey to Strengthen Guatemala’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program
title_full	Cutting Costs, Boosting Quality and Collecting Data Real-Time : Lessons from a Cell Phone-Based Beneficiary Survey to Strengthen Guatemala’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program
title_fullStr	Cutting Costs, Boosting Quality and Collecting Data Real-Time : Lessons from a Cell Phone-Based Beneficiary Survey to Strengthen Guatemala’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program
title_full_unstemmed	Cutting Costs, Boosting Quality and Collecting Data Real-Time : Lessons from a Cell Phone-Based Beneficiary Survey to Strengthen Guatemala’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program
title_sort	cutting costs, boosting quality and collecting data real-time : lessons from a cell phone-based beneficiary survey to strengthen guatemala’s conditional cash transfer program
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/02/13950430/cutting-costs-boosting-quality-collecting-data-real-time-lessons-cell-phone-based-beneficiary-survey-strengthen-guatemalas-conditional-cash-transfer-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10111
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Cutting Costs, Boosting Quality and Collecting Data Real-Time : Lessons from a Cell Phone-Based Beneficiary Survey to Strengthen Guatemala’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program

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