Episode 12: The Challenges of Phone Surveys with Women in India during COVID

Research Talks

How has COVID impacted the way researchers do fieldwork? This episode features IFPRI Research Analyst Shweta Gupta (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/shweta-gupta) who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/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 rural women, 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 questions of all: who is listening in on women’s phone conversations, and how might that impact their survey answers? To learn more: -Blog post: https://pim.cgiar.org/2020/07/14/phone-surveys-to-understand-gendered-impacts-of-covid-19-a-cautionary-note/ -Book: COVID-19 & Global Food Security - http://bit.ly/IFPRICovidBook -IFPRI Resources And Analyses Of COVID-19 Impact - https://www.ifpri.org/covid-19 -Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event annoucements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription Donors & Partners: PIM: https://pim.cgiar.org/ BMZ: https://www.bmz.de/en/ SEWA: http://www.sewa.org/ Interviewee: Shweta Gupta Interviewer: Sivan Yosef Producer: Sivan Yosef Editor: Jennifer Weingart Promotions: Drew Sample and Sarah Edwards