Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia
The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting household consumption data, which is rarely collected by...
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| author | Abate, Gashaw T. de Brauw, Alan Hirvonen, Kalle Wolle, Abdulazize |
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| description | The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting household consumption data, which is rarely collected by phone. To test the feasibility of collecting consumption data over the phone, we conducted a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia, randomly assigning households to either phone or in-person interviews. In the phone survey, average per capita consumption is 23 percent lower and the estimated poverty headcount is twice as high than in the in-person survey. We observe evidence of survey fatigue occurring early in phone interviews but not in in-person interviews; the bias is correlated with household characteristics. While the phone survey mode provides comparable estimates when measuring diet-based food security, it is not amenable to measuring consumption using the ‘best practice’ approach originally devised for in-person surveys. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1314492025-10-26T13:01:39Z Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia Abate, Gashaw T. de Brauw, Alan Hirvonen, Kalle Wolle, Abdulazize household consumption low income countries middle income countries poverty coronavirus coronavirus disease coronavirinae covid-19 survey households diets food security food consumption household surveys development The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting household consumption data, which is rarely collected by phone. To test the feasibility of collecting consumption data over the phone, we conducted a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia, randomly assigning households to either phone or in-person interviews. In the phone survey, average per capita consumption is 23 percent lower and the estimated poverty headcount is twice as high than in the in-person survey. We observe evidence of survey fatigue occurring early in phone interviews but not in in-person interviews; the bias is correlated with household characteristics. While the phone survey mode provides comparable estimates when measuring diet-based food security, it is not amenable to measuring consumption using the ‘best practice’ approach originally devised for in-person surveys. 2023-03 2023-08-08T09:33:03Z 2023-08-08T09:33:03Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131449 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134725 https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhac015 Open Access Elsevier Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; de Brauw, Alan; Hirvonen, Kalle; and Wolle, Abdulazize. Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia. Journal of Development Economics 161(March 2023): 103026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.103026 |
| spellingShingle | household consumption low income countries middle income countries poverty coronavirus coronavirus disease coronavirinae covid-19 survey households diets food security food consumption household surveys development Abate, Gashaw T. de Brauw, Alan Hirvonen, Kalle Wolle, Abdulazize Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia |
| title | Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia |
| title_full | Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia |
| title_short | Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia |
| title_sort | measuring consumption over the phone evidence from a survey experiment in urban ethiopia |
| topic | household consumption low income countries middle income countries poverty coronavirus coronavirus disease coronavirinae covid-19 survey households diets food security food consumption household surveys development |
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