Tracing down real socio-economic trends from household data with erratic sampling frames: The case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
By means of the latest seven national household surveys of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this article uncovers the very volatile sampling frame used underneath all survey designs. As a result, the reliability of much associated survey information as well as any corresponding temporal analysi...
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| author | Marivoet, Wim De Herdt, Tom |
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| description | By means of the latest seven national household surveys of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this article uncovers the very volatile sampling frame used underneath all survey designs. As a result, the reliability of much associated survey information as well as any corresponding temporal analysis are seriously jeopardized. Relying on recent vaccination, school enrolment and election data, the article proposes a post-stratification technique to retroactively control for these erratic variations in sampling frame in an attempt to identify real socio-economic trends. Although the proposed technique did not restore full comparability of survey data in all respects, it has been able to eliminate an essential part of the spuriousness as illustrated by assessing trends in asset ownership under both the biased and stabilized sampling frames. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1459932024-10-25T07:55:52Z Tracing down real socio-economic trends from household data with erratic sampling frames: The case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Marivoet, Wim De Herdt, Tom sampling surveys households socioeconomic development By means of the latest seven national household surveys of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this article uncovers the very volatile sampling frame used underneath all survey designs. As a result, the reliability of much associated survey information as well as any corresponding temporal analysis are seriously jeopardized. Relying on recent vaccination, school enrolment and election data, the article proposes a post-stratification technique to retroactively control for these erratic variations in sampling frame in an attempt to identify real socio-economic trends. Although the proposed technique did not restore full comparability of survey data in all respects, it has been able to eliminate an essential part of the spuriousness as illustrated by assessing trends in asset ownership under both the biased and stabilized sampling frames. 2018-03-27 2024-06-21T09:05:31Z 2024-06-21T09:05:31Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145993 en Limited Access SAGE Publications Marivoet, Wim; and De Herdt, Tom. 2018. Tracing down real socio-economic trends from household data with erratic sampling frames: The case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Journal of Asian and African Studies. 53(4): 532-552. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909617698842 |
| spellingShingle | sampling surveys households socioeconomic development Marivoet, Wim De Herdt, Tom Tracing down real socio-economic trends from household data with erratic sampling frames: The case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| title | Tracing down real socio-economic trends from household data with erratic sampling frames: The case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| title_full | Tracing down real socio-economic trends from household data with erratic sampling frames: The case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| title_fullStr | Tracing down real socio-economic trends from household data with erratic sampling frames: The case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tracing down real socio-economic trends from household data with erratic sampling frames: The case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| title_short | Tracing down real socio-economic trends from household data with erratic sampling frames: The case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| title_sort | tracing down real socio economic trends from household data with erratic sampling frames the case of the democratic republic of the congo |
| topic | sampling surveys households socioeconomic development |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145993 |
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