Adding Modes without Subtracting Quality: Survey Data
Collection in Low and Middle-income Countries
The growth of mobile phones and internet connection in low
and middle-income countries (LMIC) may mean that survey data collection in LMIC
can advance from face-to-face surveys to additional modes such as web or cell
phone surveys. During this seminar, you will learn which modes are feasible in
which contexts with a particular focus on mobile phone surveys.
Dr. Abigail (Abba) Greenleaf is an Assistant Professor at
Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. She received her PhD from Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her Master of Public Health from
Columbia and BS in public health from George Washington University. She is a
public health demographer whose research focuses on (1) women’s reproductive
health across geographies and the lifespan and; (2) intensive longitudinal data
collection. By integrating these areas, she is creating innovative findings for
international sexual and reproductive health population sciences. She enjoys
leveraging innovative data collection approaches to generate high-frequency,
cost- efficient population data for public health action. Survey research has
been a part of her research portfolio since she was a Doctoral student and
wrote her dissertation about the feasibility of mobile phone surveys to create
population-based estimates in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Her grandfather worked
for Central Surveys, a survey research firm in Southwest Iowa that closed in
2017 after 80 years.