Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Institute
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.creator.identifierAbdulazize Wolle: 0000-0002-0017-5973
cg.creator.identifierGashaw T. Abate: 0000-0003-2026-8066
cg.creator.identifierAlan de Brauw: 0000-0002-5045-8939
cg.creator.identifierKalle Hirvonen: 0000-0003-2057-1612
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2022/227-0
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC)
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.issn1798-7237
cg.number2022/93
cg.placeHelsinki, Finland
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
dc.contributor.authorAbate, Gashaw T.
dc.contributor.authorde Brauw, Alan
dc.contributor.authorHirvonen, Kalle
dc.contributor.authorWolle, Abdulazize
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-12T13:37:15Zen
dc.date.available2024-04-12T13:37:15Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/141085
dc.titleMeasuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractThe 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.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAbate, Gashaw Tadesse; de Brauw, Alan; Hirvonen, Kalle; and Wolle, Abdulazize. 2022. Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia. WIDER Working Paper 2022/93. https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2022/227-0en
dcterms.extent46 p.
dcterms.isPartOfWIDER Working Paperen
dcterms.issued2022-08-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherUnited Nations University
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134939en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/8375
dcterms.subjectsurvey dataen
dcterms.subjectless favoured areasen
dcterms.subjecthousehold surveysen
dcterms.subjectsurveysen
dcterms.subjectcovid-19en
dcterms.subjecturban areasen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.subjectdeveloping countriesen
dcterms.subjectexperimentationen
dcterms.subjectsurvey fatigueen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectfood consumptionen
dcterms.subjectsurvey methodsen
dcterms.subjectinformation and communication technologiesen
dcterms.subjectsurvey designen
dcterms.subjectconsumersen
dcterms.subjectpovertyen
dcterms.subjecthousehold consumptionen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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