PFRH Wednesday Seminar Series: New opportunities for rapid mortality data collection via mobile phone surveys

Department and Center Event

Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 12:15 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. ET

Location

Wolfe Street Building/W2030 (Paige Hall)

Zoom

Hybrid

Past Event

As the penetration of mobile phones around the world increases, so does the prospect of using them as a modality for administering surveys. Mobile phone surveys are easier and cheaper to implement than a face-to-face survey, but our experience with mortality data collection over the phone is limited and there are a number of unresolved operational and methodological issues, including acceptability, sampling selection bias, and the choice of the survey instruments. In this presentation, Dr. Reniers will discuss the experience from the Rapid Mortality Mobile Phone Surveys (RaMMPS) project.

Registration

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Speaker

Georges Reniers

Associate Professor of Demography, Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Georges Reniers is Associate Professor of Demography at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has led the RaMMPS project since its inception in 2020. RaMMPS is a collaboration between 13 institutions, and surveys were conducted in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi and Mozambique.