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07/17/2025

It was such a pleasure to attend and present for the first time at the European Survey Research Associations’ annual conference in Utrecht yesterday. I spoke about recall in surveys, something I blogged about recently. You can read the blog here: https://wellworldsolutions.com/2025/05/19/survey-stuff-recalling-information/

06/30/2025

Alas people, tomorrow is the date when the vast majority of USAID personnel, with the exception of a handful of admin and other staff, officially depart the agency, and a few short weeks later the agency will be formally laid to rest. So today, I wanted to take a moment and highlight the amazing work that my colleagues at USAID's Bureau for Resilience, Environment and Food Security…...

Alas people, tomorrow is the date when the vast majority of USAID personnel, with the exception of a handful of admin and other staff, officially depart the agency, and a few short weeks later the …

06/17/2025

1 A few weeks ago, Girls Not Brides, a global non-profit devoted to reducing rates of child marriage, asked me to advise on alternate sources of data now that the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) are largely gone. As I was putting together this presentation and looking at the variables that impact child marriage rates, two sets of variables stood out…...

1 A few weeks ago, Girls Not Brides, a global non-profit devoted to reducing rates of child marriage, asked me to advise on alternate sources of data now that the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) a…

06/09/2025

Today I wanted to talk a little bit about some of the work we were doing at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In the last few years, I had the privilege of creating new metrics to measure the impact of the U.S. government's flagship initiative, Feed the Future (FTF), designed to reduce hunger, poverty and malnutrition around the world....

Today I wanted to talk a little bit about some of the work we were doing at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In the last few years, I had the privilege of creating new metrics…

05/29/2025

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05/29/2025

Surveys ask us to answer all sorts of questions. Sometimes they ask us about facts such as our age, income, racial or gender identity. Other times they ask us about opinions such as what we think about human rights, democracy, specific issues, etc. And then again surveys might ask us about behaviors -- did we do action A or action B, why we did what we did, when we did these things and so on and so forth....

Surveys ask us to answer all sorts of questions. Sometimes they ask us about facts such as our age, income, racial or gender identity. Other times they ask us about opinions such as what we think a…

05/19/2025

Surveys often ask us to remember things. In the last month did you do X? Or, did you eat Y in the last 7 days? Or, how much did you earn in the last 12 months? Respondents are presented with all sorts of timeframes and asked to remember stuff. But the question is: how well do they actually remember these things and how far back can they accurately remember?...

Surveys often ask us to remember things. In the last month did you do X? Or, did you eat Y in the last 7 days? Or, how much did you earn in the last 12 months? Respondents are presented with all so…

05/08/2025

Today I was honored to present on Alternative Data Sources now that the DHS has more or less been laid to rest. Find my blog post and my presentation to Girls Not Brides about these alternative data sources at: https://wellworldsolutions.com/2025/05/08/the-dhs-is-gone-now-what/

Since 1984, the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) have collected and collated data in more than 90 countries. But the demise of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has als…

05/08/2025

Since 1984, the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) have collected and collated data in more than 90 countries. But the demise of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has also lead to almost all of this program sunsetting. For more than four decades the DHS has provided leaders, policymakers, program implementers, healthcare providers, the media and the general public with country-specific data on population demographics, health, nutrition, access to services, among other indicators....

Since 1984, the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) have collected and collated data in more than 90 countries. But the demise of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has als…

04/30/2025

Well World Solutions is pleased to share the release of our new study assessing support for a potential Child Care for Child Care Workers benefits program in North Carolina. More than 4 in 5 child care programs indicated that such a benefit would help them recruit and retain staff, and more than two-thirds said it would help them keep their doors open. Such a program if made available to all staff working at least 20 hours a week in licensed or regulated child care in North Carolina would benefit an estimated 7,300 employees and 10,500 children under the age of 6. Find the full report here:

03/29/2024

Wow, this is extortion at a scale that the Mafia and similar can only dream off. I hope the electorate is tuned it. One positive - the data are now public, maybe kinda late in the game, but its out there and I hope the voters are tuning in.

A court ruling revealed the buyers and recipients of “electoral bonds,” which had allowed companies to secretly give unlimited campaign contributions.