A nationwide mobile phone survey for tobacco use in Tanzania: Sample quality and representativeness compared to a household survey

We investigated the feasibility of an interactive voice response (IVR) survey in Tanzania and compared its prevalence estimates for tobacco use to the estimates of the ’Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) 2018. Although we found under-/over-estimation of the prevalence of tobacco use in IVR than GATS, the estimates were close. Further research is required to increase the representativeness of IVR

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Mobile Phone Survey Publications

This series of publications details the scientific studies conducted in order to improve the performance and quality of mobile phone surveys

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Kibria GMA, Kagoro F, Pariyo G. A nationwide mobile phone survey for tobacco use in Tanzania: Sample quality and representativeness compared to a household survey. Prev. Med. Report. 2024 v38

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Domains
Noncommunicable disease risk factor surveillance
Resource Type
Publication
Topics
data collection method
mobile phone survey
Country
Tanzania
Language
English
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