Surveys are important tool to elicit behavior of households, firms, and other agents in a society. This is a tool useful for policy makers and businesses to make investment and policy decisions at the community, national and global level. While surveys are done routinely by many organizations, not many surveys are done well and effectively with limited mistakes and useable data.
Aetlas Corp’s expertise in carrying out surveys is shaped by long years of experience working on survey of different scale and in developed and developing countries globally. Aetlas adopts state of the art survey techniques with emphasis on Computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI).
Computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) is an interviewing technique in which the respondent or interviewer uses a computer to answer the questions. This eliminates data entry mistakes and improved efficiency of survey enumeration. Data is centrally stored and introduces additional checks on survey enumerators. However, emphasis is typically placed on using mobile devices for a number of reasons:
- Mobile smart phones can be used to capture GPS locations relatively accurately. The need for spatial data information (also known as geospatial data or geographic information) that identifies the geographic location of agents to help offer targeted policies and instruments is increasing. Estimating climate change impact and adequate adaptation strategies relies heavily on obtaining geographic information of households to get temperature, rainfall and other climate related data.
- The growth and usage of smart phones globally makes it a lot easier to use than computers. They are a lot easier to carry and use for surveys. They have also gotten a lot bigger lately.
For further details on Aetlas Corps expertise and how we can help you carry out your next survey, please contact our survey team at surveys@aetlascorp.com.