data collection with surveybe
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Data Collection with Surveybe
www.edi-global.comwww.surveybe.com
History of EDI and Surveybe
EDI in TanzaniaResearch House established in 2002, part of
EDI group, conducting data collection* and project implementation:
CWIQ surveys (20,000 HHs -indicators of access, use & satisfaction of social services)
Impact Assessments (Conditional Cash Transfers, Rural Road Upgrading, Community based assistance to vulnerable groups) – World Bank, MCC & Others
Consumption, Labour and Welfare survey design experiments - World Bank
*= IDEAS ranking: EDI is top ranked privately funded research organisation in Africa
Fieldwork Images
Fieldwork Challenges!
Data Collection Methods at EDIBest Practice paper-based methods: 2002-2006Scanning Technology: 2006/2007Exclusively using CAPI since 2008
CWESTOriginally developed as in-house productExcellent for testing and enhancing functionality
needed for complex surveysMarket requested itBut - Clients remain tied to EDI for all their
survey programming
SurveybeDeveloped by EDI, UK: Surveybe allows you to:
• Design your own questionnaires without the need for software programmers
• Work collaboratively with other Surveybe users to share, configure and update your questionnaire templates
• Use external data or lists as a reference, validation or calculation source
• Budget confidently Surveybe Implementer is free with the Designer
• Collect data safely & efficiently with auto-save & back-ups plus auto-encryption of data and auto-import straight from the field
• Export clean and labelled data in analysis ready format, i.e. Stata ‘do’ file, SPSS syntax file or .CSV.
SurveybeEnumerator Dashboard and display of Metadata
SurveybeRoster presentation: shown with Pre-population of external data, Errors, Warnings & conditional enablement conditions
SurveybeAutomated Skips
SurveybeConsumption, non-standard units and live calculations
SurveybeFiltered Rosters and Multi-response
SurveybeImage capture
SurveybeThe Designer Interface
SurveybeDefining Validation checks: SQL
SurveybeLanguage toggling during the live interview
SurveybeIncorporating questionnaire translations
SurveybeImport/Export and Data Encryption
Key Benefits• Cleaner, more accurate data as ‘enablements’,
validations, routing & skips are within survey design • Multi-Language capabilities allowing ‘switching’ of
language during the live interview• Instant data availability – small file size, meta-data
headers and increased timeliness of data processing• Ability to refer to previous round (panel) data;
aiding recall whilst permitting consistency checks and calculations in the field between each round of data
• Ability to amend/update questionnaire(s) whilst in the field for instant deployment
• Data encryption and security on device encryption plus complete user management and hosting of data
• Cost-effective – Surveybe removes, printing, transporting, data-entry programming & data-entry costs
User Community
Multi-sector use in Agriculture, Health, Economics, LSMS, Infrastructure; even Consumer Price Index (CPI) data!
Estimated >1million data collection instances with Surveybe usage in 48 countries:
Selected clients
