A small victory. The survey data for Haiti is completely entered and now exists in digital form. This meant pretty much a solid week of sitting at my laptop as surveyors brought in the forms from the field, typing in the information and then double checking every single data point before finally sending to the online data base we set up for this purpose. I recently read a stats analysis book where the author claimed that he spends about 80% of his time getting data ready for analysis, and about 20% of his time actually doing the analysis. I was comforted to know that, because I thought maybe it was only my problem.
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I'm surprised to know that it is as high as 20%. Maybe the author didn't want to discourage folks.
There is also the post-confirmation. Agame in Papaye enters the data from the crew and "verifies" the data, but there are always errors that slip through, which you find as you analyze the data. Like "rabbits" being classified as one of our vegetable types.
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