Assessing Progress towards Development Goals: Data Source Tradeoffs and Complementarities
Authors: Dr. Fumiko Kasuga
DOI: 10.87349/JBUPT/27902
Page No: 10-17
Abstract
Data sources available to researchers and decisionmakers are growing, and the potential savings and uses of new data to provide insights into development is the subject of considerable research1. This paper provides a framework for evaluating utility and quality tradeoffs when choosing data sources, and applies the framework to a case study comparing survey data and satellitebased estimates on consumption in Malawi and Ethiopia. The case study illustrates that while satellite data provides some relatively cost-effective insights into consumption, it still depends on (validating) survey data and may be less accurate when used to study some demographic sub-populations mentioned in the Sustainable Development Goals.
