Times Have Changed: Using a Pictorial Smartphone App to Collect Time–Use Data in Rural Zambia. Issue 1 (February 2019)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Times Have Changed: Using a Pictorial Smartphone App to Collect Time–Use Data in Rural Zambia. Issue 1 (February 2019)
- Main Title:
- Times Have Changed: Using a Pictorial Smartphone App to Collect Time–Use Data in Rural Zambia
- Authors:
- Daum, Thomas
Buchwald, Hannes
Gerlicher, Ansgar
Birner, Regina - Abstract:
- One challenge of collecting socioeconomic data, such as data on time-use, is recall biases. While time-use researchers have continuously developed new methods to make data collection more accurate and easy, these methods are difficult to use in developing countries, where study participants may have low literacy levels and no clock-based concepts of time. To contribute to the closing of this research gap, we developed a picture-based smartphone app called Time-Tracker that allows data recording in real time to avoid recall biases. We pilot tested the app in rural Zambia, collecting 2, 790 data days. In this article, we compare the data recorded with the app to data collected with 24-hours recall questions. The results confirm the literature on recall biases, suggesting that using the app leads to valid results. We conclude that smartphone apps using visual tools provide new opportunities for researchers collecting socioeconomic data in developing countries.
- Is Part Of:
- Field methods. Volume 31:Issue 1(2019)
- Journal:
- Field methods
- Issue:
- Volume 31:Issue 1(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 31, Issue 1 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0031-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 3
- Page End:
- 22
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02
- Subjects:
- Ethnology -- Methodology -- Periodicals
Anthropology -- Methodology -- Periodicals
Anthropologie -- Méthodologie -- Périodiques
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- 10.1177/1525822X18797303 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1525-822X
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