The Impact of Decentralized Data Entry on the Quality of Household Survey Data in Developing Countries:

Computers were provided to randomly selected districts participating in a household survey in Vietnam to assess the impact on data quality of entering data within a day or two of completing the interview rather than several weeks later in the provincial capital. Provision of computers had no signifi...

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Main Authors:	Glewwe, Paul, Dang, Hai-Anh Hoang
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	enumeration experimental design measurement errors nonsampling errors precision probabilities probable errors sample size statistical methods Statisticians
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4476

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spelling	okr-10986-44762021-04-23T14:02:18Z The Impact of Decentralized Data Entry on the Quality of Household Survey Data in Developing Countries: Glewwe, Paul Dang, Hai-Anh Hoang enumeration experimental design measurement errors nonsampling errors precision probabilities probable errors sample size statistical methods Statisticians Computers were provided to randomly selected districts participating in a household survey in Vietnam to assess the impact on data quality of entering data within a day or two of completing the interview rather than several weeks later in the provincial capital. Provision of computers had no significant effect on the observed distribution of household expenditures and thus no effect on measured poverty. Provision of computers reduced the mean number of errors per household by 5–23 percent, depending on the type of error. Given the already low rate of errors in the survey, however, the goal of increasing the precision of the estimated mean of a typical variable can be achieved at a much lower cost by slightly increasing the sample size. Provision of additional computers did substantially reduce the time interviewers spent adding up and checking the data in the field, with the value of the time saved close to the cost of purchasing desktop computers. 2012-03-30T07:12:37Z 2012-03-30T07:12:37Z 2008-01-30 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4476 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank Journal Article Vietnam
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description	Computers were provided to randomly selected districts participating in a household survey in Vietnam to assess the impact on data quality of entering data within a day or two of completing the interview rather than several weeks later in the provincial capital. Provision of computers had no significant effect on the observed distribution of household expenditures and thus no effect on measured poverty. Provision of computers reduced the mean number of errors per household by 5–23 percent, depending on the type of error. Given the already low rate of errors in the survey, however, the goal of increasing the precision of the estimated mean of a typical variable can be achieved at a much lower cost by slightly increasing the sample size. Provision of additional computers did substantially reduce the time interviewers spent adding up and checking the data in the field, with the value of the time saved close to the cost of purchasing desktop computers.
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author	Glewwe, Paul Dang, Hai-Anh Hoang
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title	The Impact of Decentralized Data Entry on the Quality of Household Survey Data in Developing Countries:
title_short	The Impact of Decentralized Data Entry on the Quality of Household Survey Data in Developing Countries:
title_full	The Impact of Decentralized Data Entry on the Quality of Household Survey Data in Developing Countries:
title_fullStr	The Impact of Decentralized Data Entry on the Quality of Household Survey Data in Developing Countries:
title_full_unstemmed	The Impact of Decentralized Data Entry on the Quality of Household Survey Data in Developing Countries:
title_sort	impact of decentralized data entry on the quality of household survey data in developing countries:
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