Integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs
Survey and ethnographic methods have been combined in the evaluations of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs for the governments of Nicaragua and Turkey. This paper describes the quantitative and qualitative research designs for these evaluations, discusses the relative benefits of quantitative...
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2008
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| description | Survey and ethnographic methods have been combined in the evaluations of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs for the governments of Nicaragua and Turkey. This paper describes the quantitative and qualitative research designs for these evaluations, discusses the relative benefits of quantitative and qualitative approaches for studying CCTs, and provides examples of how findings of these different approaches complemented, explained, illuminated, or contradicted each other. While the surveys provided reliable measures of program impacts on human capital, the qualitative research provided explanations of why we do or do not find these impacts, and explored how social processes and social relations were affected by, and in turn shaped responses to, the programs. While many official evaluations now require mixed methods, and these have demonstrated policy relevance and impacts, there is still considerable progress to be made with respect to how methods are integrated in practice and how mixed approaches are appreciated in social program evaluation. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1611832025-11-06T07:07:15Z Integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs Adato, Michelle qualitative research ethnic groups survey research research methods evaluation cash transfers social protection gender relations nutrition policies Survey and ethnographic methods have been combined in the evaluations of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs for the governments of Nicaragua and Turkey. This paper describes the quantitative and qualitative research designs for these evaluations, discusses the relative benefits of quantitative and qualitative approaches for studying CCTs, and provides examples of how findings of these different approaches complemented, explained, illuminated, or contradicted each other. While the surveys provided reliable measures of program impacts on human capital, the qualitative research provided explanations of why we do or do not find these impacts, and explored how social processes and social relations were affected by, and in turn shaped responses to, the programs. While many official evaluations now require mixed methods, and these have demonstrated policy relevance and impacts, there is still considerable progress to be made with respect to how methods are integrated in practice and how mixed approaches are appreciated in social program evaluation. 2008 2024-11-21T09:54:00Z 2024-11-21T09:54:00Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161183 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Adato, Michelle. 2008. Integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs. IFPRI Discussion Paper 810. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161183 |
| spellingShingle | qualitative research ethnic groups survey research research methods evaluation cash transfers social protection gender relations nutrition policies Adato, Michelle Integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs |
| title | Integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs |
| title_full | Integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs |
| title_fullStr | Integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs |
| title_short | Integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs |
| title_sort | integrating survey and ethnographic methods to evaluate conditional cash transfer programs |
| topic | qualitative research ethnic groups survey research research methods evaluation cash transfers social protection gender relations nutrition policies |
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