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Instructor: Dr. Amit ThoratLanguage: English
The workshop will introduce the students to a Pan India Household survey called the India Human Development Survey (2004/05 & 2011/12). It is one of a kind nationally representative survey, covering all the states and union territories of India. It is a Multi-topic survey which is also the only longitudinal survey of India, conducted across multiple states and union territories of India in 2004–05 and 2011–12 by the instructor. Through this workshop, students will gain hands-on exposure to the logic, structure, and field realities of survey research, which include complexity of capturing the data related to income, or agricultural for example, including both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
1) How to think of and frame multiple questions for the same variable and select the one(s) that work best in the field?
2) How to organise questionnaire into sections, sub-sections, order, categorise and number them
3) Efficient and Effective ways of Designing a questionnaire/Innovative ways of recording and entering data
4) How to best ask and capture Quantitively data based questions, especially information on Agriculture production, land use, household consumption expenditure, sources of Income, Fuel & Energy usage etc.
5) How to Quantitatively capture Qualitative data and perception/opinion based data such as trust in Institutions, neighbours, perception/beliefs about health, intra-household decision making, gender relations students learning Outcomes & more.
6) Strategies to employ while asking questions to ensure high quality data capture
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
1) To understand the gap between thinking of a question as an idea and transversing the distance to effectively, efficiently and productively enumerate the same in a field setting.
2) To understand the best ways of wording, placing, asking and entering questions and their responses in the field.
3) To design the questionnaire in an efficient, workable and suitable manner in line with the nature of enquiry.
4) To be cognisant of the variation in the respondents location, space, intellectual and communication abilities and mould one self, and the manner and method of asking questions, trying best not to bring our own background into the process.
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS
1. Development Practitioners
2. PhD Scholars
3. Early career faculty and researchers
4. Data journalists
5. Anyone else who’s enthusiastic about development issues, surveys and data
PRE-REQUISITE
E-certificate (provided) for 70% attendance across both sessions.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Center for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Email: amitthorat@gmail.com
Amit Thorat is an Assistant Professor of Economics, at the Center for the Study of Regional Development at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior to this, he worked as an Associate Fellow at the National Council for Applied Economics Research (NCAER), New Delhi, where he was part of the India Human Development Survey team. He has also worked with ICAR-National Institute, International Food Policy Research Institute, South Asia headquarters in New Delhi and Economic Research Foundation, New Delhi. He received his doctorate in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning , JNU. His research has focused on issues of poverty, income, educational, wealth, asset and health inequalities in general and across social, ethnic and religious communities in particular, in the context of India. Currently he is working on understanding peoples beliefs around personal and social identity in India and its implications for social behavior, individual distress and economic outcomes. His recent work also involves formulating an argument for Reparations for the ex-untouchables and the ex-cast-enslaved in South-Asia. His earlier work includes examining gains for small and marginal farmers from high value production as well as from farmer owned-cooperative farming.
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