Presentation by Clark Letterman of RTI at the 2016 AAPOR session on Monitoring data quality during fieldwork in international CAPI surveys.

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Using Mobile Devices for Quality Control in
Developing Country Surveys
Clark Letterman

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From PAPI to CAPI and Beyond
 How do you monitor quality
with PAPI surveys?
– Rely on humans and ex-post
data analysis
 Why would you use PAPI?
– cost
– familiarity
 CAPI: can it be more than
fancy paper?
– Passive monitoring at multiple
management levels
– Quick turn-around for QC

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RTI Mobile FS Software
 Multiple questionnaires
grouped as part of a
case
 Integrated case
management system to
calculate response rates
 Quality control systems
– Passive GPS capture
– Customizable Paradata
– Computer Assisted
Recorded Interview
(CARI)

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Passive GPS- where the heck are we?
 Quality Control for
geographic sampling
approaches
– Interviewers not
responsible for recording
their locations.
 GPS coordinates can be
recorded multiple times
during an interview.
– Did the whole interview
take place at the
household?

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Paradata

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CARI
 Turnaround time is an
issue
– Some questions or all
interview review
 Quality of audio
recordings
 Consent has not been
an issue for surveys with
low-sensitivity questions.

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Implementation
 QC Feedback Loop
– Are we just collecting
more information, or are
we actually using it?
 Willingness
– Contracts
– Competitive advantage
 Ability
– Capacity building and
support (can’t set it and
forget it)