Prospects of Estimating Poverty with Phone Surveys : Experimental Results from Serbia

Prospects of Estimating Poverty with Phone Surveys : Experimental Results from Serbia

Telephone surveys enable us to collect data in a cost-effective and timely manner, but may not be conducive for collecting detailed consumption or income data for measuring poverty due to the required length of the interview and complexity of the q...

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Main Authors: Boznic, Vladan, Katayama, Roy, Munoz, Rodrigo, Takamatsu, Shinya, Yoshida, Nobuo
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
POVERTY MEASUREMENT
POVERTY DATA COLLECTION
TELEPHONE INTERVIEW
PHONE SURVEY
RANDOMIZED TRIAL
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/131771508869472557/Prospects-of-estimating-poverty-with-phone-surveys-experimental-results-from-Serbia
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spelling okr-10986-285852021-06-08T14:42:45Z Prospects of Estimating Poverty with Phone Surveys : Experimental Results from Serbia Boznic, Vladan Katayama, Roy Munoz, Rodrigo Takamatsu, Shinya Yoshida, Nobuo POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY DATA COLLECTION TELEPHONE INTERVIEW PHONE SURVEY RANDOMIZED TRIAL Telephone surveys enable us to collect data in a cost-effective and timely manner, but may not be conducive for collecting detailed consumption or income data for measuring poverty due to the required length of the interview and complexity of the questions. Combining telephone surveys with a survey-to-survey imputation technique may be a solution, as this technique can produce reliable poverty estimates from only 10 to 20 simple questions. However, this approach may lead to biased results if the interview mode, that is, face-to-face versus telephone interviews, affects how households respond to questions. By conducting the first survey experiment to examine potential differences in poverty estimates between interview modes, this study finds that the reporting patterns changed very little between the two interview modes, and the bias in poverty estimates due to interview mode is statistically insignificant. These findings suggest that poverty monitoring via telephone surveys is promising, but additional experiments in other country contexts are encouraged. 2017-10-26T15:19:10Z 2017-10-26T15:19:10Z 2017-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/131771508869472557/Prospects-of-estimating-poverty-with-phone-surveys-experimental-results-from-Serbia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28585 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8225 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Serbia
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topic POVERTY MEASUREMENT
POVERTY DATA COLLECTION
TELEPHONE INTERVIEW
PHONE SURVEY
RANDOMIZED TRIAL
spellingShingle POVERTY MEASUREMENT
POVERTY DATA COLLECTION
TELEPHONE INTERVIEW
PHONE SURVEY
RANDOMIZED TRIAL
Boznic, Vladan
Katayama, Roy
Munoz, Rodrigo
Takamatsu, Shinya
Yoshida, Nobuo
Prospects of Estimating Poverty with Phone Surveys : Experimental Results from Serbia
geographic_facet Europe and Central Asia
Serbia
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8225
description Telephone surveys enable us to collect data in a cost-effective and timely manner, but may not be conducive for collecting detailed consumption or income data for measuring poverty due to the required length of the interview and complexity of the questions. Combining telephone surveys with a survey-to-survey imputation technique may be a solution, as this technique can produce reliable poverty estimates from only 10 to 20 simple questions. However, this approach may lead to biased results if the interview mode, that is, face-to-face versus telephone interviews, affects how households respond to questions. By conducting the first survey experiment to examine potential differences in poverty estimates between interview modes, this study finds that the reporting patterns changed very little between the two interview modes, and the bias in poverty estimates due to interview mode is statistically insignificant. These findings suggest that poverty monitoring via telephone surveys is promising, but additional experiments in other country contexts are encouraged.
format Working Paper
author Boznic, Vladan
Katayama, Roy
Munoz, Rodrigo
Takamatsu, Shinya
Yoshida, Nobuo
author_facet Boznic, Vladan
Katayama, Roy
Munoz, Rodrigo
Takamatsu, Shinya
Yoshida, Nobuo
author_sort Boznic, Vladan
title Prospects of Estimating Poverty with Phone Surveys : Experimental Results from Serbia
title_short Prospects of Estimating Poverty with Phone Surveys : Experimental Results from Serbia
title_full Prospects of Estimating Poverty with Phone Surveys : Experimental Results from Serbia
title_fullStr Prospects of Estimating Poverty with Phone Surveys : Experimental Results from Serbia
title_full_unstemmed Prospects of Estimating Poverty with Phone Surveys : Experimental Results from Serbia
title_sort prospects of estimating poverty with phone surveys : experimental results from serbia
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/131771508869472557/Prospects-of-estimating-poverty-with-phone-surveys-experimental-results-from-Serbia
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