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Socio-economic data collection through household surveys need huge investment in time, human resource, and cost. When one of these is compromised, the quality of data suffers. When data is collected using paper-based formats, errors happen despite clear instructions in the questionnaire. A considerable amount of time is also lost in transferring data from hard to soft version and in finalizing the dataset.
In view of these issues, the ‘Rural Livelihoods and Climate Change Adaptation in the Himalayas (Himalica) Initiative’ has started data collection using Android-based tablets. The use of tablets will have following advantages over paper-based data collection:
Himalica has procured 25 tablets and are currently being used to collect data for on-farm monitoring survey for the action research on ‘Agricultural Extension Services in Nepal: Using Social Networks to Promote New Agricultural Technology’. This is the second round of survey and aims to collect data from 1,380 households.
In the first round, approximately 2,500 questionnaires were printed and data collection took 20 days which translates into 69 interviews per day. In addition, transfer of data from hard to soft version and finalization took another 70 days. In the ongoing round, the survey will be completed in 15 days (with 92 interviews per day) with the same number of interviewers. Thus, the use to tablets has saved around 100 days. The tablets will also be used for data collection in poverty and vulnerability surveys and other pilot and action research studies.
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