Polly Phipps fell in love with statistics when, as a student, she designed and carried out a probability survey from beginning to end. She trained as a survey methodologist and joined the federal government in the late 1980s. Ultimately, she developed tools to evaluate quality at early and late stages of questionnaire development and put into place a model for instrument design that incorporated qualitative and quantitative methods.
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Five Lessons Learned Implementing a School Drought Survey in Somalia
When designing and implementing a survey in a crisis situation, a survey methodologist may find standard tasks to be more challenging (particularly in developing countries). Here, Monica Dashen outlines fives lessons she learned while implementing a school drought survey in Somalia.