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 South Sudan. In both cases, high frequency panel data...

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Main Authors:	Hoogeveen, Johannes, Croke, Kevin, Dabalen, Andrew, Demombynes, Gabriel, Giugale, Marcelo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2014
Subjects:	data collection mobile phones household survey methods high frequency panels
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20462

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spelling	okr-10986-204622021-04-23T14:03:56Z 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 Canadian Journal of Development Studies 0225-5189 http://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 Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Africa Africa South Sudan Tanzania
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spellingShingle	data collection mobile phones household survey methods high frequency panels Hoogeveen, Johannes Croke, Kevin Dabalen, Andrew Demombynes, Gabriel Giugale, Marcelo Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews
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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.
format	Journal Article
author	Hoogeveen, Johannes Croke, Kevin Dabalen, Andrew Demombynes, Gabriel Giugale, Marcelo
author_facet	Hoogeveen, Johannes Croke, Kevin Dabalen, Andrew Demombynes, Gabriel Giugale, Marcelo
author_sort	Hoogeveen, Johannes
title	Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews
title_short	Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews
title_full	Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews
title_fullStr	Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews
title_full_unstemmed	Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews
title_sort	collecting high frequency panel data in africa using mobile phone interviews
publisher	Taylor and Francis
publishDate	2014
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20462
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Collecting High Frequency Panel Data in Africa Using Mobile Phone Interviews

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