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Barteld Braaksma et al.

Data Collection with Tablets: The Experience of St Maarten and Caribbean Netherlands. Barteld Braaksma et al. Contents. Some background The St Maarten case The Caribbean Netherlands case The way forward. The Caribbean Netherlands and St Maarten.

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Barteld Braaksma et al.

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  1. Data Collection with Tablets: The Experience of St Maarten and Caribbean Netherlands Barteld Braaksma et al.

  2. Contents • Some background • The St Maarten case • The Caribbean Netherlands case • The way forward

  3. The Caribbean Netherlandsand St Maarten • 10/10/10: former Dutch Caribbean colonies choose future • St Maarten • Independent state • Population 39 thousand • New Department of Statistics (STAT SXM), 6 fte • Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius • “Municipality” of the Netherlands • Population 23 thousand • Bonaire “front-office”, 3 fte • Europe “back-office”, 2.7 fte

  4. The St Maarten challenge • Population and Housing Census in 2010 • New office, little experience and no tools… • Field work done in nine days (PAPI) • Data entry/coding/editing outsourced (not succesful) • Plan B: use tablets for data entry • Reservations about • Initial cost • Integration with existing environment • Acquisition of survey software • Ability of interviewers

  5. St Maarten implementation Transition • Open Data Kit software on Android tablets • How tight to make the CAPI survey? Technical implementation • Focus on correct data flow • Only free software

  6. St Maarten experiences Main benefits • Better management of progress and performance • Near instant update of data • Higher quality of data

  7. The Caribbean Netherlands challenge • All surveys on paper (PAPI) • Sent by mail to Saba and St Eustatius (800 km) • Filled out questionnaires again back to Bonaire by mail • Manual data entry • Unsatisfactory method: • Time consuming • Data protection issues • Many errors (routing, data-entry)

  8. From idea to innovation in Caribbean NL • Inspiration from STAT SXM • Why not try tablets in Caribbean Netherlands? • Everybody had their say: • “We don’t know anything about tablets” • “ODK is not the right software” • “We don’t want to use Android” • “What about data protection?” • “This is too risky, I don’t want to be part of this” • However this did not stop us…

  9. Two pilot surveys in Caribbean NL Household expenditure survey • Data collection w/ 10 tablets, March-August 2013 • Bonaire only • Relatively straightforward survey • Questionnaires developed in MS Access Omnibus survey • Data collection w/ 15 tablets, May-June 2013 • Still Bonaire only • Half of the interviews on paper for reference • Multi-purpose survey • First Blaise application on tablets

  10. Experiences in Caribbean NL • Many advantages • Field staff: easy to use, no paper hassle (four languages!), fast • Office staff: no manual data-entry • Backend staff (NL): quick results, better data quality • Some issues • Field staff: small font size (in the MS Access implementation) • Office staff: lack of status reports, data transfer to be improved

  11. The way forward • STAT SXM gradually expands tablet use • End 2014: all data collection in Caribbean NL tablet-based • Introduction of tablets in Netherlands also considered …doing more with less…

  12. …doing more with less… Tablets are a huge success! With • Limited time • Limited resources • Limited experience We • Improved efficiency • Promoted quality • Generated enthusiasm “Yes we can”

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