Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia
The paucity of reliable and timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it practically impossible to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the burst of phone surveys, there has been few attempts to collect household consu...
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| author | Abate, Gashaw T. de Brauw, Alan Hirvonen, Kalle Wolle, Abdulazize |
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| description | The paucity of reliable and timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it practically impossible to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the burst of phone surveys, there has been few attempts to collect household consumption data. To test the feasibility of collecting consumption data over the phone, we conducted a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia, randomly assigning a balanced sample to either a phone or an in-person interview. The average value of per capita consumption is 23 percent lower, and the estimated poverty headcount is twice as high in the phone survey relative to the in-person survey. We see evidence of survey fatigue occurring early on in phone interviews but not in in-person interviews, and the bias is correlated with household characteristics. While the phone survey mode provides lower costs, it cannot replace in-person surveys for household consumption measurement. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1434342025-12-02T21:03:13Z Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia Abate, Gashaw T. de Brauw, Alan Hirvonen, Kalle Wolle, Abdulazize surveys covid-19 households urban areas food security food consumption information and communication technologies survey design poverty The paucity of reliable and timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it practically impossible to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the burst of phone surveys, there has been few attempts to collect household consumption data. To test the feasibility of collecting consumption data over the phone, we conducted a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia, randomly assigning a balanced sample to either a phone or an in-person interview. The average value of per capita consumption is 23 percent lower, and the estimated poverty headcount is twice as high in the phone survey relative to the in-person survey. We see evidence of survey fatigue occurring early on in phone interviews but not in in-person interviews, and the bias is correlated with household characteristics. While the phone survey mode provides lower costs, it cannot replace in-person surveys for household consumption measurement. 2021-12-31 2024-05-22T12:14:07Z 2024-05-22T12:14:07Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143434 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134018 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133766 https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2022/227-0 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; de Brauw, Alan; Hirvonen, Kalle; and Wolle, Abdulazize. 2021. Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2087. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134939. |
| spellingShingle | surveys covid-19 households urban areas food security food consumption information and communication technologies survey design poverty 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 | surveys covid-19 households urban areas food security food consumption information and communication technologies survey design poverty |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143434 |
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