Randomized Survey Experiment to Measure Mode Effects in Survey Data Collection Tender

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Country : Nepal

Summary : Randomized Survey Experiment to Measure Mode Effects in Survey Data Collection

Deadline : 10 Mar 2025

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 115361897

Document Ref. No. : 0002014352

Competition : ICB

Financier : World Bank (WB)

Purchaser Ownership : Public

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Phone surveys have become an important tool for collecting household data in low- and middle-income countries. They offer important advantages in terms of timeliness and lower costs of data production, but they are not suitable tools for all data needs, particularly those that require more complex and time-consuming survey modules, which are better fit for face-to-face surveys.As phone and face-to-face surveys are used in combination to generate more relevant and timely evidence, there is a need to explore what kinds of data can be measured over the phone just as well as face-to-face survey data collection and investigate to what extent potential mode effects - whereby the survey mode itself affects survey responses - influence measurement and econometric analyses.A large literature examines mode effects in high-income settings (Bowling, 2005; Jäckle et al., 2010) but there is little evidence from lower-income contexts. An emerging methodological literature explores the utility of phone surveys for measuring and informing development policy and research in low- and middle-income countries (Brubaker et al., 2021; Abate et al., 2023; Anderson et al., 2024; Glazerman et al., 2023; Jeong et al., 2023; Markhof et al., 2025).The World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) program is leading a project to assess survey mode effects. The project is supporting randomized survey experiments that allow for the comparison of survey data collected over the phone versus face-to-face, for an identical set of socioeconomic variables. In this respect, the LSMS is seeking to hire a consulting firm (hereafter ‘the Firm-), which will be responsible for implementing a randomized survey experiment that will be used to measure survey mode effects in a sample of enumeration areas (EAs) in Nepal.The Firm will execute this assignment in close collaboration with the LSMS team, which will provide the experimental and sampling design; draw the enumeration area sample for the survey; pre...

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TOR_Survey_Mode_Nepal-v2CLEAN.pdf