Join Nishant, data collection expert at SocialCops, as he runs you through the different types of data collection and shows you how to save time, money and resources by switching to mobile data collection. In this presentation, you'll learn: • About different data collection techniques • How to collect information using mobile forms • How to manage your data collection project

1. How to Improve Your Data
Collection Using Mobile Phones
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2. SocialCops Introduction
● Data intelligence company
● 150+ partner organizations worldwide
● Critical decision making
● Data collection to data visualization
Nishant
Mobile data collection expert

3. SocialCops Partners

4. Our data collection projects spread across the world

5. WFP
Zambia
Monitoring and evaluating the impact of
their initiative for smallholder farmers
The Indian
Government
Powering India's gas subsidy for
more than 50 million Women
adsHOUSE
Indonesia
Conducting and tracking market
research activities
Data Collection Partner Projects
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6. What you’ll
learn
● What mobile data collection is
and its advantages
● Everything you can do on a
mobile data collection app
● How to run a data collection project
using a mobile platform (live demonstration)

7. What is
mobile data
collection?
The method of gathering
any type of information
using a mobile device,
such as a smartphone
or tablet.

8. 1
Mobile data collection
reduces errors
35%
reduction in errors
in data collection
Advantages of mobile data collection

9. 1
70%
less time spent on
data collection
Advantages of mobile data collection
Mobile data collection
saves time

10. 1
Advantages of mobile data collection
71%
less money spent on
data collection
Mobile data collection
saves money

11. The journey of paper data collection
Create Forms
Print Forms
Distribute Forms
Wait for Data Data Entry
Collate Forms
Start
End
Long and tedious process — lasts from weeks to months to years

12. The journey of mobile data collection
Create Forms
Collect Data
View in Real Time
Start End
Short and quick process — lasts from a few hours to a few days

13. Paper Mobile
1 Works offline in
remote areas
2 Minimal need for
training - easy-to-use
3 Anyone can use it -
no coding required
4 Collect any kind of
data - media and GPS
5 No waiting, see data
instantly - real-time
6 No waiting, fix errors
instantly - resurvey
Here’s
how they
compare

14. No compromise
Just as
easy-to-use
No technical skills
required
Works
offline

15. ➔ Saves money and resources
➔ High-quality data
➔ No waiting time
➔ No compromises
➔ Additional benefits
Any data, real time, resurvey...
Summary
Mobile vs Paper

16. Mobile data
collection
tools
● What can the platform do?
● M&E, project management, data analysis, etc.
●
● How easily can I start using it?
● Training, user interface, paper to digital, etc.
●
● How stable is the platform?
● Expert support, backups, server security, etc.
●
● How much will it cost me?
● Time, manpower, training, expenditure, etc.
Things to consider

17. What tool is right for you depends on
Budget LocationScale

18. Everything you
can do using a
mobile data
collection app
● Collect
any kind of data
● Reduce
and correct data errors
● View
data in real time
● Analyze
data in real time

19. Collect data of any kind

20. Collect media data
Image
Geotagged image
Video
Audio
Barcode

21. Collect
location data
● Record automatically or select
manually
● GPS location
● Without internet

22. Improve data quality by reducing errors

23. Reduce errors at input
● Add min and max values for numbers
● Character count limits
● Make questions mandatory or optional
● Get only verified phone numbers, email
addresses, etc.

24. Skip unnecessary
questions
● Show or hide questions based on
previous answers
● Ask and answer only relevant
questions
● Save time in the field
● Increase data quality

25. View data in real time

26. View or download data table

27. Map where data is coming from

28. Analyze data in real time

29. Identify errors and resurvey

30. Track your project with real-time analytics & daily reports

31. ➔ How many responses am I collecting?
➔ How many mobile users do I have?
➔ How many devices are my mobile users using?
➔ What do the response trends looking like over time?
➔ Who are my highest performing mobile users and devices?
➔ Who are my lowest performing mobile users and devices?
➔ …..
Get quick answers

32. Get insights from your data

33. ➔ How many beneficiaries has my program trained so far?
➔ What does their age and gender distribution look like?
➔ How many households have a working toilet?
➔ What is the average household size?
➔ How likely are people to purchase an item?
➔ Which diseases are most common in a given location?
➔ How many people refused consent to sharing their details?
➔ …..
Get detailed answers

34. Thank you!
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