Data Collection with Surveybe

History of EDI and Surveybe

EDI in Tanzania Research House established in 2002, part of EDI group, conducting data collection* and project implementation: CWIQ surveys (20,000 HHs -indicators of access, use & satisfaction of social services) Impact Assessments (Conditional Cash Transfers, Rural Road Upgrading, Community based assistance to vulnerable groups) – World Bank, MCC & Others Consumption, Labour and Welfare survey design experiments - World Bank *= IDEAS ranking: EDI is top ranked privately funded research organisation in Africa

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Fieldwork Challenges!

Data Collection Methods at EDI Best Practice paper-based methods: Scanning Technology: 2006/2007 Exclusively using CAPI since 2008CWEST Originally developed as in-house product Excellent for testing and enhancing functionality needed for complex surveys Market requested it But - Clients remain tied to EDI for all their survey programming

Surveybe Developed by EDI, UK: Surveybe allows you to: Design your own questionnaires without the need for software programmers Work collaboratively with other Surveybe users to share, configure and update your questionnaire templates Use external data or lists as a reference, validation or calculation source Budget confidently Surveybe Implementer is free with the Designer Collect data safely & efficiently with auto-save & back-ups plus auto-encryption of data and auto-import straight from the field Export clean and labelled data in analysis ready format, i.e. Stata ‘do’ file, SPSS syntax file or.CSV.

Surveybe Enumerator Dashboard and display of Metadata

Surveybe Roster presentation: shown with Pre-population of external data, Errors, Warnings & conditional enablement conditions

Surveybe Automated Skips

Surveybe Consumption, non-standard units and live calculations

Surveybe Filtered Rosters and Multi-response

Surveybe Image capture

Surveybe The Designer Interface

Surveybe Defining Validation checks: SQL

Surveybe Language toggling during the live interview

Surveybe Incorporating questionnaire translations

Surveybe Import/Export and Data Encryption

Key Benefits Cleaner, more accurate data as ‘enablements’, validations, routing & skips are within survey design Multi-Language capabilities allowing ‘switching’ of language during the live interview Instant data availability – small file size, meta-data headers and increased timeliness of data processing Ability to refer to previous round (panel) data; aiding recall whilst permitting consistency checks and calculations in the field between each round of data Ability to amend/update questionnaire(s) whilst in the field for instant deployment Data encryption and security on device encryption plus complete user management and hosting of data Cost-effective – Surveybe removes, printing, transporting, data-entry programming & data-entry costs

User Community Multi-sector use in Agriculture, Health, Economics, LSMS, Infrastructure; even Consumer Price Index (CPI) data! Estimated >1million data collection instances with Surveybe usage in 48 countries:

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