Measuring consumption over the phone: evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia
WIDER Working Papers 2022. (93):33 pp. many ref.
; 2022.
Article
in English
| CAB Abstracts | ID: covidwho-2026647
ABSTRACT
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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Observational study
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English
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WIDER Working Papers 2022. (93):33 pp. many ref.
Year:
2022
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Article
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