Gathering data in rural areas can be delicate, especially with sensitive subjects like Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), often considered taboo in many Indian villages. Researchers, often seen as outsiders with different accents and advanced equipment, face significant challenges when discussing such personal topics.In one instance, our researchers arrived in a village where early marriages an...
Equipped with state-of-the-art tablets, our team arrived at a village in Uttar Pradesh, ready for efficient digital data collection. However, they soon discovered a critical problem: there was no electricity to charge the devices in the village houses. The tablets became practically useless after the batteries were running out.Realizing the severity of the situation, the researchers had to find a ...
As a data collection organization working in the development space for over a decade, there are “trends” we come across over the years.From women remaining inside the house during surveys, to them sitting beside the male members in the courtyard as equal participants, good changes are hard to come by but they are surely on their way.What (pleasantly) surprised our field team was the sense of a...
Field work from a research perspective is often more complicated than one thinks. Appointment seeking, permission slips, mountains of paperwork, repeated enumerator training, coordination and so much more is also a major part of field work. However, it can all go to waste after one interaction. Outline India, while conducting a rather sensitive survey on information dissemination and its...
