Data Collection
with Surveybe
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History of EDI and
Surveybe
EDI in Tanzania
 Research House established in 2002, part of
EDI group, conducting data collection* and
project implementation:
 CWIQ surveys (20,000 HHs -indicators of
access, use & satisfaction of social services)
 Impact Assessments (Conditional Cash
Transfers, Rural Road Upgrading,
Community based assistance to vulnerable
groups) – World Bank, MCC & Others
 Consumption, Labour and Welfare survey
design experiments - World Bank
*= IDEAS ranking: EDI is top ranked privately funded research organisation in Africa
Fieldwork Images
Fieldwork Challenges!
Data Collection Methods at EDI
 Best Practice paper-based methods: 2002-2006
 Scanning Technology: 2006/2007
 Exclusively using CAPI since 2008
CWEST
 Originally developed as in-house product
 Excellent for testing and enhancing functionality
needed for complex surveys
 Market requested it
 But - Clients remain tied to EDI for all their
survey programming
Surveybe
Developed by EDI, UK: Surveybe allows you to:
• Design your own questionnaires without the need for
software programmers
• Work collaboratively with other Surveybe users to
share, configure and update your questionnaire templates
• Use external data or lists as a reference, validation or
calculation source
• Budget confidently Surveybe Implementer is free with
the Designer
• Collect data safely & efficiently with auto-save &
back-ups plus auto-encryption of data and auto-import
straight from the field
• Export clean and labelled data in analysis ready
format, i.e. Stata ‘do’ file, SPSS syntax file or .CSV.
Surveybe
Enumerator Dashboard and display of Metadata
Surveybe
Roster presentation: shown with Pre-population of external
data, Errors, Warnings & conditional enablement conditions
Surveybe
Automated Skips
Surveybe
Consumption, non-standard units and live calculations
Surveybe
Filtered Rosters and Multi-response
Surveybe
Image capture
Surveybe
The Designer Interface
Surveybe
Defining Validation checks: SQL
Surveybe
Language toggling during the live interview
Surveybe
Incorporating questionnaire translations
Surveybe
Import/Export and Data Encryption
Key Benefits
• Cleaner, more accurate data as ‘enablements’,
validations, routing & skips are within survey design
• Multi-Language capabilities allowing ‘switching’ of
language during the live interview
• Instant data availability – small file size, meta-data
headers and increased timeliness of data processing
• Ability to refer to previous round (panel) data;
aiding recall whilst permitting consistency checks and
calculations in the field between each round of data
• Ability to amend/update questionnaire(s) whilst in the
field for instant deployment
• Data encryption and security on device encryption
plus complete user management and hosting of data
• Cost-effective – Surveybe removes, printing,
transporting, data-entry programming & data-entry costs
User Community
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Multi-sector use in Agriculture, Health, Economics, LSMS,
Infrastructure; even Consumer Price Index (CPI) data!
Estimated >1million data collection instances with
Surveybe usage in 48 countries:
Selected clients
Questions?
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