ReviewFood policy2021
Viewpoint: High-frequency phone surveys on COVID-19: Good practices, open questions.
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- Respondent Fatigue Reduces Dietary Diversity Scores Reported from Mobile Phone Surveys in Ethiopia during the COVID-19 Pandemic.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Trial
- Feasibility and Validity of Mobile Phone-Based Proxy Full Pregnancy History (mPFPH) for Estimating Perinatal Mortality in Rural Northwest Bangladesh.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2026Article
- Conflict, mental health, and labor productivity: evidence from hired farm workers in Myanmar.BMC global and public health · 2026Article
- Computer-Assisted Mobile Phone Interviews in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Through a Total Survey Error Framework.Public opinion quarterly · 2026Review
- Can mobile phone surveys accurately measure the coverage of maternal healthcare services? Results from the Rapid Mortality Mobile Phone Survey (RaMMPS) study in Mozambique.Oxford open digital health · 2026Article
- Cost of immunization coverage surveys in low- and middle-income countries.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Understanding retention in longitudinal surveys conducted by mobile phone in lower-resource contexts: A case study from Kenya.PloS one · 2026Article
- 2022-'23 Malawi rapid mortality mobile phone survey (RaMMPS) dataset.Data in brief · 2025Article
- Measuring adult mortality from mobile phone surveys in Burkina Faso, Malawi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Women's participation in mobile phone surveys in Mozambique: Findings from a qualitative study.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2025Article
- Interactive voice response surveys as a method for increasing the representativeness of rural respondents in a mortality mobile phone survey: Findings from Malawi.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2025Article
- Mobile phone survey estimates of perinatal mortality in Malawi: A comparison of data from truncated and full pregnancy histories.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2025Article
- Design and Implementation of an Ultra-Low-Power Hazardous Gas Monitoring System.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Comparison of an Open versus List-Based Dietary Recall Method to Assess Unhealthy Feeding Practices among Infants and Young Children.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Article
- Realities of using self-administered smartphone surveys to solve sustainability challenges.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2025Article
- D2A: a community-led smartphone tool for malnutrition screening in Kenya.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Can I Interview Her? Gatekeeping in a Telephone Survey of Female Migrants in India.Survey practice · 2025Article
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- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal, newborn, and child health service coverage in Burkina Faso.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- DYnamics of Contraception in Eswatini (DYCE): protocol for a high-frequency, longitudinal cell phone survey.BMJ open · 2024Article
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Abstract
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face survey data collection efforts came to a halt due to lockdowns, limitations on mobility and social distancing requirements. What followed was a surge in phone surveys to fulfill rapidly evolving needs for timely and policy-relevant microdata for understanding the socioeconomic impacts of and responses to the pandemic. Even as the face-to-face survey data collection efforts are resuming in different parts of the world with COVID-19 safety protocols, the rapidly-acquired experience with phone surveys on the part of national statistical offices and survey practitioners in low- and middle-income countries appears to have formed the foundation for phone surveys to be more commonly implemented in the post-pandemic era, in response to other shocks and as complementary efforts to face-to-face surveys. Informed by the practical experience with the high-frequency phone surveys that have been implemented with support from the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) to monitor the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper provides an overview of options for the design and implementation of phone surveys to collect representative data from households and individuals. Further, the discussion identifies the requirements for phone surveys to be a mainstay in the toolkits of national statistical offices and the directions for future research on the design and implementation of phone surveys.
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