Representation and Visibility in Quantitative Surveys

by Alexia Pretari | Jan 10, 2020 | Data Collection & Sourcing, Guest Posts

What is the role of quantitative surveys in shedding light on different lived realities?   Which choices made during the design of an impact evaluation affect who is represented and listened to?   Data collections can make structural inequalities invisible and...

Result or Interpretation?

by Heather Krause | Dec 3, 2019 | Interpretation

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Who is the Head of Your Household?

by Heather Krause | Nov 7, 2019 | Data Collection & Sourcing, Featured, Project Design

Who is the head of your household? It probably depends on who you ask. In my household, you will either find out that I am the head of the household, my husband is the head of the household, or that my bulldog is the head of my household. It depends on how you...

Supercharge your Averages with an Equity Gap Score

by Heather Krause | Oct 22, 2019 | Analysis, Communication & Distribution, Interpretation

When you need to know more than just a general average, you need an Equity Gap Score. If you have a mandate that includes equity between any category of people, whether race, sex, income, education, geography, or whether or not they like sugar in their tea, you need...

What is Data Worth to You?

by Heather Krause | Sep 27, 2019 | Data Collection & Sourcing, Funding

Data is a commodity. Do your survey respondents feel data-rich?  One of the things that made me uncomfortable when I first started working as a data scientist was the power imbalance in the data collection methods I was being trained in. One of my very first jobs was...