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CWEST has now transitioned into surveybe; please see www.surveybe.com for more details.
A paper comparing CAPI and PAPI through a Randomized Field Experiment can be downloaded here
Electronic Surveys for Faster and Better Data
Collecting survey data from the field is a big job. Surveybe brings questionnaire design, interviewing, data entry, validation and export together in one place. Surveybe gives survey designers and managers comprehensive control for faster and better data capture by:
- Eliminating questionnaire editing in spreadsheets or word processors .
- Eliminating Data Entry.
- Guiding the interviewers through the questionnaire (automatic skips).
- Running consistency checks during the interview (stopping mistakes at source).
- Automatic GPS capture
- Daily uploading of analysis-ready data from the field to a server through mobile phone networks.
- Automatic questionnaire updates from HQ to the field
Getting to Grips with Real Work
EDI delivers the most complicated surveys that development can throw at it. Having shopped around, we couldn't find anything robust and technically flexible enough to meet such challenges as: complex validity checking, roster questioning, integrated listing and stratified sampling, multiple languages and all the other real stuff.
So We Built It
The market having failed to provide, but the advantages of directed electronic capture being obvious, we've built our own. Using Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs) and a sophisticated software suite, EDI and our customers are now reaping the benefits of instant and accurate data collection. Each repeated field survey has further honed these efficiencies and will continue to do so.
In the past 3 year we have successfully administered electronic surveys to well over 60,000 households in some of the most remote areas of Tanzania.
Its Not Just in the Machine
We know first-hand that new technology means new logistical challenges. For instance how to keep the equipment charged in the field, how to transmit the data back and pickup live updates and more of that real stuff.
To find out how we deal with these and how we can put you in the driver's seat to get your data faster visit www.surveybe.com.
