TY - JOUR
T1 - Accelerating and improving survey implementation with mobile technology
T2 - Lessons from PMA2020 implementation in Lagos, Nigeria
AU - Zimmerman, Linnea
AU - OlaOlorun, Funmilola
AU - Radloff, Scott
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Union for African Population Studies. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Large-scale nationally representative surveys have traditionally been implemented using paper surveys, necessitating secondary steps of data entry and management after data collection. Errors occurring during data collection or entry may not be rapidly identified. The Performance Monitoring and Accountability (PMA20202) project implementation in Lagos, Nigeria demonstrates four advantages to integrating mobile technology into survey implementation. First is the rapidity of data collection; data collection lasted six weeks from mapping/listing to final collection-and, since completed surveys are uploaded to a cloud-based server, identification of errors can occur in near real-time. Second, time-stamping and GPS marking allow for improved quality assurance. Third, the inclusion of GPS coordinates creates new opportunities to analyze relationships of distance with use of health services. Fourth, PMA2014/Lagos utilized a 10% resample of households to validate data collection allowing for rapid identification of questionable data and quality control.
AB - Large-scale nationally representative surveys have traditionally been implemented using paper surveys, necessitating secondary steps of data entry and management after data collection. Errors occurring during data collection or entry may not be rapidly identified. The Performance Monitoring and Accountability (PMA20202) project implementation in Lagos, Nigeria demonstrates four advantages to integrating mobile technology into survey implementation. First is the rapidity of data collection; data collection lasted six weeks from mapping/listing to final collection-and, since completed surveys are uploaded to a cloud-based server, identification of errors can occur in near real-time. Second, time-stamping and GPS marking allow for improved quality assurance. Third, the inclusion of GPS coordinates creates new opportunities to analyze relationships of distance with use of health services. Fourth, PMA2014/Lagos utilized a 10% resample of households to validate data collection allowing for rapid identification of questionable data and quality control.
KW - Family planning
KW - Mobile technology
KW - Survey implementation
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U2 - 10.11564/29-1-719
DO - 10.11564/29-1-719
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84981744866
SN - 0850-5780
VL - 29
SP - 1699
EP - 1712
JO - Etude de la Population Africaine
JF - Etude de la Population Africaine
IS - 1
ER -