Frequency Listing Report
- Frequency listing identifies local leader-experts (notab) from the consensus of respondents and uses them to identify aid beneficiaries.
- The report presents the method as faster and cheaper than traditional surveys and as workable remotely by telephone.
- The report plans on 50% to 60% of notab being reached by telephone.
- The report recommends that interviewers aim for 50 percent female and 50 percent male respondents.
- The report describes widespread poverty in rural Haiti, with 59% of the population living below the poverty line.
The report presents frequency listing as a method that draws on cultural consensus analysis to identify the most knowledgeable local informants, called notab, and then the beneficiaries of aid programs. It positions the method as an alternative to community-based targeting committees, community mapping and wealth ranking, and to surveys that target with socio-economic indicators. The listed advantages include speed, low cost, low skill requirements, remote operation through a call center, and resistance to nepotism and misrepresentation.
The report sets out the planning assumptions for telephone contact and sampling, and it draws on conditions in rural Haiti such as poverty, lack of water and electricity, and the effects of the 2010 earthquake to explain why aid targeting needs such a method.
How to cite
Socio-Dig, 2017, Frequency Listing Report, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/sociodig-2017-frequency-listing-report
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