Data Collection

I have had the lucky opportunity to lead/participate in data collection for multiple projects. For all three projects I led survey writing. This entailed ideating questions and sequence, pre-testing, and revising. In a supporting role, I've particpated in the sampling strategy and implementation. Finally, I led data cleaning for two of these projects. This has equipped me with an understanding of what it takes to organize and administer data collection, from start to finish. 

National Farmers Market Survey (Administered)

• Programmed two surveys (Qualtrics) with embedded data from the USDA American Marketing Service

Small Enterprises in Tanzanian Food Service (Administered)

• Led a team of researchers to list 3,400+ enterprises (street food vendors) across nine administrative units of Dar es Salaam.

• Created a small survey for the listed population and subsequently a larger questionnaire for the final sample. 

• Participated in clustered, stratified random sampling for a representative sample of 1,122 enterprises.

• Led pre-testing and programming (Qualtrics) of the questionnaire.

• Topics: labor, asset inventory, access to services and utilities, fuel use, procurement, output menu.

• Two-period recall with an open-ended start year.