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Going Geo-digital with Household Surveys for Gender and Poverty Data?
A PRACTICAL APPLICATION IN A PPTA IN THE PRC

Out on a Limb in Jiujiang?

Limited budget Limited time Changing project scope Wide, diverse, uncertain project area had a choice between making excuses or innovating

Why Consider Geo-Digital Surveys

Tablets are costly Risks bottom line: on-time, on-budget Adding technological error to human error.

Why Consider Geo-Digital Surveys

Manual, paper surveys are often Inefficient Project-level issues Error-prone Difficult to validate Redundant System-level issues Inaccessible

What Convinced Us :
Increased number of respondents Cost of tablets offset by savings Quality-Control: 6 Key Advantages

Table 23: Main Source of Drinking Water Survey Group Yongxiu County 66 41.00% 15 9.30% 14 8.70% 4 2.50% 2 1.20% 6 Tubewell/borehole 3.70% 48 Protected dug well Unprotected well protected spring Surface water (lake, river, irrigation) Other dug 29.80% 4 2.50% 1 0.60% 0 0.00% 1 0.60% 161 Total 100.00% Xingzi County 57 96.60% 1 1.70% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 1.70% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 59 100.00% Dean County 62 91.20% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 1.50% 0 0.00% 5 7.40% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 68 100.00% Gongqing City 67 98.50% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 1.50% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 68 100.00% Jujiang County 101 91.00% 6 5.40% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 0.90% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 0.90% 0 0.00% 2 1.80% 111 100.00% Jiujiang City 453 93.80% 6 1.20% 3 0.60% 1 0.20% 0 0.00% 1 0.20% 3 0.60% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 0.20% 15 3.10% 483 100.00% Total 806 84.80% 28 2.90% 17 1.80% 5 0.50% 3 0.30% 8 0.80% 58 6.10% 4 0.40% 2 0.20% 1 0.10% 18 1.90% 950 100.00%

Piped water from utility into dwelling Piped water from utility to yard/plot Unofficial piped network from untreated source Water self-supplied by the apartment block Public tap/standpipe

Critical Factors
National consultant National Internet firewalls Technical support Proficiency in disaggregation

Recommendations
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Include in TORs Identify post-survey uses for tablets Think data cycle/project cycle Platform for multi-purpose info-gathering Databases of questionnaires, results (WB, WHO, UNICEF)

Not Out on a Limb

Just a Stepping Stone

Thank You
melissa_alipalo@yahoo.com Survey App: www.droidsurvey.com

Social Development: Field-Integrated Review & Standardized Tools (SD-FIRST)

Design Concept Andrew McIntyre, RSES

SD-FIRST Objectives
Standardize data/reporting needs
minimum but necessary + user defined Poverty, Gender and IR By Sector & Region Comparison & use within ADB / between agencies

Meaningful Communication
Stakeholder annotation, maps, information sharing

Multiple Platforms
Machine readable surveys, tablets, phones?

Project Cycle
Updates, due diligence, implementation monitoring, M&E

Ensure Quality & Usable data Improve Efficiency & Effectiveness

Concept Overview
Meaningful Consultation Data Collection

M&E and Feedback Data Analysis Standard Reporting Maps, Tables

ADB Data Set

Data Exchange