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

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dc.creatorAbate, Gashaw T.
dc.creatorde Brauw, Alan
dc.creatorHirvonen, Kalle
dc.creatorWolle, Abdulazize
dc.date2022-08-01
dc.date2024-04-12T13:37:15Z
dc.date2024-04-12T13:37:15Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:12:35Z
dc.descriptionThe 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.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/141085
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/97752
dc.languageen
dc.publisherUnited Nations University
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134939
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAbate, 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/2022/227-0
dc.subjectsurvey data
dc.subjectless favoured areas
dc.subjecthousehold surveys
dc.subjectsurveys
dc.subjectcovid-19
dc.subjecturban areas
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectdeveloping countries
dc.subjectexperimentation
dc.subjectsurvey fatigue
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectfood consumption
dc.subjectsurvey methods
dc.subjectinformation and communication technologies
dc.subjectsurvey design
dc.subjectconsumers
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjecthousehold consumption
dc.titleMeasuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia
dc.typeWorking Paper

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