2. Capacity Building Skilled statisticians Survey training Interviewers
Data collection & processing systems
Experience/Practice in doing
Guidelines/sourcebooks
Research program

3. Research Program Assess research needs
Assess skills required to address research needs. May include
management & field operations
statisticians & operations researchers
survey methodologists & social scientists
geographers/cartographers
computer programming/information systems
expertise in agriculture, economics, demography

4. Research Program (cont’d)
Examine how to get skill set
Training
Hiring
Outside expertise
Objective is to integrate expertise with knowledge of local environment and desired program

5. Design Research Literature review
Develop methods and statistical editing, processing, tabulating, & disclosure systems
Pilot tests to address unresolved issues & obtain baseline knowledge of success of approach
Make corrections to survey design

6. Design Research (cont’d)
Design field test
Must test operation
May have experimental components
Refine survey & implement
Conduct theoretical & applied research to address continuing issues/problems

7. Potential Research Needs
Development of sampling frames whether survey or administrate record based
Technology implementation
GIS systems
CAPI implementation
Estimation research
Estimator for data/nonresponse & cov. Adj.
Small area output

8. Research Requirements
Innovative – methods from developed countries may not be replicable
Frame issues for lists or segments or administrative records
Data collection may have specific requirements
Different estimation requirements
Low cost – funding is issue
Integration of household and business statistical program requirements