A Practical Guide To Digital Data Collection

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Introduction Purpose Use of Manual Field Staff Composition and Organization Choosing the Right Methodology Personal Safety and Competence Developing the Meta Approach Research Theory: What is the Research Question? IRB Considerations Accessibility Flow Chart Preparing for Fieldwork Materials Needed for the Field Equipment Preparation Partnering Security Clearance Understanding the Territory Training Run a Pilot Study Organization of the Fieldwork Schedule and Field Assignments Transportation Supervision of Data Collection Quality Control/ Quality Assurance Ethical Considerations and Confidentiality Cultural Considerations Survey Design Methodologies Development of Survey Instruments Statistical Considerations Sampling Procedures Digital Data Collection About Introduction Benefits of Digital Data Collection Data Transmission KoBoForm: Building Surveys and Forms Introduction to KoBoForm Getting Started with KoBoForm Builder Adding Cascading Selections in KoBoForm KoBoForm Security MetaData Multiple Languages Question Types What types of Questions can be Used? Skip Logic Validation Building Surveys Offline in KoBoForm Access KoBoForm offline

KoBoCollect: Mobile Data Collection KoBoCollect User Guide Introduction to KoBoCollect KoBoCollect Training Best Practices Appendix: Hardware Preparation KoBoSync: Offline Data Synchronization Getting Started with KoBoSync Introduction Synchronize Data to Computer Transcribe XML to CSV Random Record Generator MULTI Select with the Post Processor Catches and Caveats Running KoBoSync from inside KoBoForm

XForm Primer How XForms work Example of an Xform: Xform Anatomy Xform Logic Explained XML Nodes Developers Code Repository Users Group License Data Analysis Transcription and Translation of Survey Results Tags Boiler Plate Statements Obfuscation and Data Scrubbing Mapping Administrative Procedures Some Bullshit section Thoughts Opinions Ideas