Author: Mousumi Sarkar
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Survey Stuff: The Feed the Future Population-Based Survey Toolkit
Alas people, tomorrow is the date when the vast majority of USAID personnel, with the exception of a handful of admin and other staff, officially depart the agency, and a few short weeks later the agency will be formally laid to rest. So today, I wanted to take a moment and highlight the amazing work…
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Data Stuff: Peeking at Attitudes Data to Explain Girl Marriage
A few weeks ago, Girls Not Brides, a global non-profit devoted to reducing rates of child marriage, asked me to advise on alternate sources of data now that the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) are largely gone. As I was putting together this presentation and looking at the variables that impact child marriage rates, two sets…
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New Metrics: Influencing and Leveraging in USAID’s Feed the Future Initiative
Today I wanted to talk a little bit about some of the work we were doing at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In the last few years, I had the privilege of creating new metrics to measure the impact of the U.S. government’s flagship initiative, Feed the Future (FTF), designed to reduce hunger,…
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Survey Stuff: Validating Surveys in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Surveys ask us to answer all sorts of questions. Sometimes they ask us about facts such as our age, income, racial or gender identity. Other times they ask us about opinions such as what we think about human rights, democracy, specific issues, etc. And then again surveys might ask us about behaviors — did we…
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Survey Stuff: Recalling Information
Surveys often ask us to remember things. In the last month did you do X? Or, did you eat Y in the last 7 days? Or, how much did you earn in the last 12 months? Respondents are presented with all sorts of timeframes and asked to remember stuff. But the question is: how well…
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