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 has 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 done by phone....
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United Nations University
2022
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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 has 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 done 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 was 23 per cent lower than in the in-person survey, and the estimated poverty headcount was twice as high. There is 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 | CGSpace1410852025-12-08T10:29:22Z Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia Abate, Gashaw T. de Brauw, Alan Hirvonen, Kalle Wolle, Abdulazize survey data less favoured areas household surveys surveys covid-19 urban areas households capacity development developing countries experimentation survey fatigue food security food consumption survey methods information and communication technologies survey design consumers poverty household consumption The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries has 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 done 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 was 23 per cent lower than in the in-person survey, and the estimated poverty headcount was twice as high. There is 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. 2022-08-01 2024-04-12T13:37:15Z 2024-04-12T13:37:15Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141085 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134939 Open Access United Nations University Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; de Brauw, Alan; Hirvonen, Kalle; and Wolle, Abdulazize. 2022. Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia. WIDER Working Paper 2022/93. https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2022/227-0 |
| spellingShingle | survey data less favoured areas household surveys surveys covid-19 urban areas households capacity development developing countries experimentation survey fatigue food security food consumption survey methods information and communication technologies survey design consumers poverty household consumption 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 | survey data less favoured areas household surveys surveys covid-19 urban areas households capacity development developing countries experimentation survey fatigue food security food consumption survey methods information and communication technologies survey design consumers poverty household consumption |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141085 |
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