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Replication data for: Real-Time Social Data Collection in Rural Bangladesh via a ‘Microtasks for Micropayments’ Platform on Android Smartphones

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Title Replication data for: Real-Time Social Data Collection in Rural Bangladesh via a ‘Microtasks for Micropayments’ Platform on Android Smartphones
 
Identifier https://hdl.handle.net/11529/10935
 
Creator Andrew Reid Bell
Patrick S. Ward
Mary E. Killilea
Md. Ehsanul Haque Tamal
 
Publisher CIMMYT Research Data & Software Repository Network
 
Description The advent of cheap smartphones in rural areas across the globe presents an opportunity to change the mode with which researchers engage hard-to-reach populations. In particular, smartphones allow researchers to connect with respondents more frequently than standard household surveys, opening a new window into important short-term variability in key measures of household and community wellbeing. In this paper, we present early results from a pilot study in rural Bangladesh using a ‘microtasks for micropayments’ model to collect a range of community and household living standards data using Android smartphones. We find that more frequent task repetition with shorter recall periods leads to more inclusive reporting, improved capture of intra-seasonal variability, and earlier signals of events such as illness. Payments in the form of mobile talk time and data provide a positive development externality in the form of expanded access to mobile internet and social networks. Taken to scale, programs such as this have potential to transform data collection in rural areas, providing near-real-time windows into the development of markets, the spread of illnesses, or the diffusion of ideas and innovations.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
data collection
electronic data transmission
households
surveys
Bangladesh
data collection
rural areas
 
Date 2016-11-10
 
Type survey data