Can mobile phone-based household surveys in rural Papua New Guinea generate information representative of the population surveyed?

Conducting household surveys through face-to-face interviewing in rural Papua New Guinea is beset with difficulties and high costs. With phone network coverage spreading across PNG, using mobile phones to obtain information from respondents can allow such surveys to be done more quickly and at signi...

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Autor principal: Benson, Todd
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146542
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description Conducting household surveys through face-to-face interviewing in rural Papua New Guinea is beset with difficulties and high costs. With phone network coverage spreading across PNG, using mobile phones to obtain information from respondents can allow such surveys to be done more quickly and at significantly lower cost. However, not all rural households own mobile phones. In this Project Note, an assessment is made of whether survey information collected by calling respondents on their mobile phones will be representative of the population surveyed or, rather, might be subject to systematic biases. This assessment is done by analyzing the characteristics of households in four rural areas of PNG that were interviewed in a field survey in mid-2018.
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spelling CGSpace1465422025-11-06T07:48:57Z Can mobile phone-based household surveys in rural Papua New Guinea generate information representative of the population surveyed? Benson, Todd population structure household surveys technology data collection assessment mobile equipment rural areas Conducting household surveys through face-to-face interviewing in rural Papua New Guinea is beset with difficulties and high costs. With phone network coverage spreading across PNG, using mobile phones to obtain information from respondents can allow such surveys to be done more quickly and at significantly lower cost. However, not all rural households own mobile phones. In this Project Note, an assessment is made of whether survey information collected by calling respondents on their mobile phones will be representative of the population surveyed or, rather, might be subject to systematic biases. This assessment is done by analyzing the characteristics of households in four rural areas of PNG that were interviewed in a field survey in mid-2018. 2019-04-27 2024-06-21T09:07:27Z 2024-06-21T09:07:27Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146542 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Benson, Todd. 2019. Can mobile phone-based household surveys in rural Papua New Guinea generate information representative of the population surveyed? Papua New Guinea Project Note 2. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146542
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Benson, Todd
Can mobile phone-based household surveys in rural Papua New Guinea generate information representative of the population surveyed?
title Can mobile phone-based household surveys in rural Papua New Guinea generate information representative of the population surveyed?
title_full Can mobile phone-based household surveys in rural Papua New Guinea generate information representative of the population surveyed?
title_fullStr Can mobile phone-based household surveys in rural Papua New Guinea generate information representative of the population surveyed?
title_full_unstemmed Can mobile phone-based household surveys in rural Papua New Guinea generate information representative of the population surveyed?
title_short Can mobile phone-based household surveys in rural Papua New Guinea generate information representative of the population surveyed?
title_sort can mobile phone based household surveys in rural papua new guinea generate information representative of the population surveyed
topic population structure
household surveys
technology
data collection
assessment
mobile equipment
rural areas
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146542
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