In January 2020 IFPRI launched a podcast series, which takes listeners along the IFPRI research journey, including the ups and downs of tackling a development problem, implementing cutting-edge research in remote and underserved settings, and working with partners to help the research make an impact.
How has COVID impacted the way researchers do fieldwork?
This episode features IFPRI Research Analyst Shweta Gupta who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef, tells the story of how the pandemic has upended the way IFPRI researchers are doing household surveys. In Gujarat, India, Shweta and her colleagues have launched a multi-round survey of self-employed women living in rural and urban areas, interviewing them over the phone instead of in-person. The switch has had huge implications, from how enumerators are being trained to how many respondents are willing to participate. But the biggest question of all: is anyone else listening in on these women’s phone conversations and how might that impact their survey answers?
Podcast and interview transcript available here.
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