From IPA’s Daniel Katz:
Recently the data-entry company finally finished entering the 2,812 28-page surveys from one of our surveys, and it was time to pick them up:
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Why I moved to electronic data collection
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4 Responses
If they can fit this many surveys this easily, then I think they should be! AND it can even manage Kampala’s potholes. I love this little sucker.
Is RAV4 the car of choice for field researchers/supervisors :)? I also used a rented blue RAV4 while doing fieldwork in Kenya in 2008.
FINCA’s household income surveys are fully electronic. I think they use commercially available PDAs with some custom software.
…and now I’m doing the error rate checking on the data entry. Just to reinforce your distaste for paper.
(also: that grammatical ugliness was not in my original blog post…)