Search Results - subject:"Data Collection"

Insights from surveys on business and enterprises in South Sudan

Finn, Arden; Von der Goltz, Jan - 2020

This study assesses jobs in businesses and NGOs in the towns of South Sudan. It is based on a 2019 business survey that includes informal and micro enterprises, as well as a dedicated survey of foreign-owned businesses. The business community is typical of a low-income post-conflict country, but...

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Re-Thinking Firm Level Data Collection during COVID-19 : Using Mobile Sensing to Understand the Financial Behaviors of Entrepreneurs

Alibhai, Salman; Buehren, Niklas; Cucagna, Maria Emilia - 2020

-level financial behaviors and challenges. At the same time, traditional methods of in-person data collection pose a health risk to … both enumerator and firm and contravene social distancing guidelines and public health policies. Remote data collection … glean some insights into the lives and behaviors of entrepreneurs which traditional data collection might not reveal. One of …

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GDPR As Shield to a Data Sharing Remedy

Tombal, Thomas - 2020

Our European economy runs on data, which has become an essential resource for economic growth, job creation and societal progress, and data sharing is often presented as the avenue forward to reap such benefits. This call for more data sharing might create tensions with the personal data...

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Identifying Marginal Treatment Effects in the Presence of Sample Selection

Bartalotti, Otávio - 2020

This article presents identification results for the marginal treatment effect (MTE) when there is sample selection. We show that the MTE is partially identified for individuals who are always observed regardless of treatment, and derive uniformly sharp bounds on this parameter under four...

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On the Political Economy of Data Collection : Lessons from the Unaccomplished Population Census (DR Congo, 2006-2018)

Brandt, Cyril - 2020

In 2018, twelve years after a working group began to prepare a population census in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the census project has still not been implemented. We therefore ask, ‘How have different stakeholders shaped the census project since 2006?' The unaccomplished...

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Data Gaps, Data Incomparability, and Data Imputation : A Review of Poverty Measurement Methods for Data-Scarce Environments

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020

This paper reviews methods that have been employed to estimate poverty in contexts where household consumption data are unavailable or missing. These contexts range from completely missing and partially missing consumption data in cross-sectional household surveys, to missing panel household...

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Measuring Ownership, Control, and Use of Assets

Doss, Cheryl R. - 2020

rights, and whether these relationships vary across individuals. Through a review of the existing approaches to data … collection and the relevant literature on survey methodology, this paper presents an overview of the current best practices for …

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Mission Impossible? Exploring the Promise of Multiple Imputation for Predicting Missing Gps-Based Land Area Measures in Household Surveys

Kilic, Talip - 2020

Methodological research has showcased GPS technology as the new gold-standard in land area measurement in large-scale household surveys. Nonetheless, facing budget constraints, survey agencies continue to measure with GPS only plots within sampled enumeration areas or a given radius of dwelling...

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Measuring Movement and Social Contact with Smartphone Data : A Real-Time Application to Covid-19

Couture, Victor - 2020

Tracking human activity in real time and at fine spatial scale is particularly valuable during episodes such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we discuss the suitability of smartphone data for quantifying movement and social contact. We show that these data cover broad sections of the US...

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Religion in Economic History : A Survey

Becker, Sascha O. - 2020

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...

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