• Development Research in Practice
    The DIME Analytics Data Handbook
  • Welcome
    • Published by
      DIME Analytics
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the authors
  • Feedback
    • How to contribute
    • Already addressed errata
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
    • How to read this book
    • The DIME Wiki: A complementary resource
    • Standardizing data work
    • Standardizing coding practices
    • The team behind this book
    • Looking ahead
  • 1 Conducting reproducible, transparent, and credible research
    • Developing a credible research project
      • Registering research
      • Writing preanalysis plans
      • Publishing registered reports
    • Conducting research transparently
      • Documenting data acquisition and analysis
      • Cataloging and archiving data
    • Analyzing data reproducibly and preparing a reproducibility package
    • Looking ahead
  • 2 Setting the stage for effective and efficient collaboration
    • Preparing a collaborative work environment
      • Setting up a computer for data work
      • Establishing effective documentation practices
      • Setting up a code environment
    • Organizing code and data for replicable research
      • Organizing files and folders
      • Establishing common file formats
      • Using version control
      • Writing code that others can read
      • Writing code that others can run
      • BOX 2.6 WRITING CODE THAT OTHERS CAN RUN: A CASE STUDY FROM THE DEMAND FOR SAFE SPACES PROJECT
    • Preparing to handle confidential data ethically
      • Seeking ethical approval
      • Obtaining informed consent
      • BOX 2.7 SEEKING ETHICAL APPROVAL: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE DEMAND FOR SAFE SPACES PROJECT
      • BOX 2.8 OBTAINING INFORMED CONSENT: A CASE STUDY FROM THE DEMAND FOR SAFE SPACES PROJECT
      • Ensuring research subject privacy
      • BOX 2.9 ENSURING THE PRIVACY OF RESEARCH SUBJECTS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE DEMAND FOR SAFE SPACES PROJECT
    • Looking ahead
  • 3 Establishing a measurement framework
    • Documenting data needs
      • Developing a data linkage table
      • Constructing master data sets
      • Creating data flowcharts
    • Translating research design to data needs
      • Applying common research designs to data
      • Including multiple time periods
      • Incorporating monitoring data
    • Creating research design variables by randomization
      • Randomizing sampling and treatment assignment
      • Programming reproducible random processes
      • Implementing clustered or stratified designs
      • Performing power calculations
    • Looking ahead
  • 4 Acquiring development data
    • Acquiring data ethically and reproducibly
      • Determining data ownership
      • Obtaining data licenses
      • Documenting data received from partners
    • Collecting high-quality data using electronic surveys
      • Designing survey instruments
      • Piloting survey instruments
      • Programming electronic survey instruments
      • Using electronic survey features to enhance data quality
      • Training enumerators
      • Checking data quality in real time
    • Handling data securely
      • Encrypting data
      • Collecting and storing data securely
      • Backing up original data
    • Looking ahead
  • 5 Cleaning and processing research data
    • Making data “tidy”
      • Establishing a unique identifier
      • Tidying data
    • Implementing data quality checks
      • BOX 5.4 ASSURING DATA QUALITY: A CASE STUDY FROM THE DEMAND FOR SAFE SPACES PROJECT
    • Processing confidential data
      • Protecting research subject privacy
      • Implementing de-identification
    • Preparing data for analysis
      • Exploring the data
      • Correcting data points
      • Recoding and annotating data
      • Documenting data cleaning
    • Looking ahead
  • 6 Constructing and analyzing research data
    • Creating analysis data sets
      • Organizing data analysis workflows
      • Integrating multiple data sources
      • Creating analysis variables
      • Documenting variable construction
    • Writing analysis code
      • Organizing analysis code
      • Visualizing data
    • Creating reproducible tables and graphs
      • Managing outputs
      • Exporting analysis outputs
    • Increasing efficiency of analysis with dynamic documents
      • Conducting dynamic exploratory analysis
      • Using LaTeX for dynamic research outputs
    • Looking ahead
  • 7 Publishing reproducible research outputs
    • Publishing research papers and reports
      • Using LaTeX for written documents
      • Getting started with LaTeX as a team
    • Preparing research data for publication
      • De-identifying data for publication
      • Publishing research data sets
    • Publishing a reproducible research package
      • Organizing code for reproducibility
      • Releasing a reproducibility package
    • Looking ahead
  • Conclusion
    • Bringing it all together
    • Where to go from here
  • Appendix
  • A The DIME Analytics Coding Guide
    • Writing good code
    • Using the code examples in this book
    • The DIME Analytics Stata Style Guide
      • Commenting code
      • Abbreviating commands
      • Abbreviating variable names
      • Writing loops
      • Using white space
      • Writing conditional expressions
      • Writing file paths
      • Using line breaks
      • Using boilerplate code
      • Miscellaneous notes
  • B DIME Analytics Resource Directory
    • Public resources and tools
    • Flagship training courses
    • Software tools and trainings
  • C Research design for impact evaluation
    • Understanding causality, inference, and identification
      • Estimating treatment effects using control groups
      • Designing experimental and quasi-experimental research
    • Obtaining treatment effects from specific research designs
      • Cross-sectional designs
      • Difference-in-differences
      • Regression discontinuity
      • Instrumental variables
      • Matching
      • Synthetic control
  • Bibliography

Development Research in Practice
The DIME Analytics Data Handbook

Development Research in Practice
The DIME Analytics Data Handbook

Kristoffer Bjarkefur, Luiza Cardoso de Andrade, Benjamin Daniels, Maria Ruth Jones

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