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Towards adoption of mobile data collection for effective adaptation and climate risk management in Africa
Adekola, Olalekan Lamond, Jessica Adelekan, Ibidun Bhattacharya-Mis, Namrata Ekinya, Mboto Bassey Eze Eze Ujoh, Fanan
Adekola, Olalekan
Lamond, Jessica
Adelekan, Ibidun
Bhattacharya-Mis, Namrata
Ekinya, Mboto Bassey Eze
Eze Ujoh, Fanan
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2022-05-16
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The collection and use of data on climate change and its impacts are crucial for effective climate adaptation and climate risk management. The revolution in internet access, technology and costs has led to a shift from using traditional paper-based data collection to the use of Mobile Data Collection using Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) such as smartphones and tablets. In this paper, we report our experiences using both approaches for a household and business survey during a climate adaptation study in two Nigerian cities— Makurdi and Calabar. The focus of this paper is to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of using
traditional paper- based data collection and PDAs as data collection tools for climate change study in African societies. In Calabar, data were collected using paper questionnaires, while in Makurdi the questionnaires were developed on Open Data Kit (ODK) and administered using PDAs. Results show that data collection using PDA was faster, cheaper, more accurate and resulted in fewer omissions than paper-based data collection. There was a time saving of four (4) minutes per questionnaire and a 24% cost saving when using PDA. PDA provides additional benefits where platforms can collect images, videos and coordinates. This significantly improved the credibility of the data collection process and provided further data that allowed for the mapping of environmental phenomena by linking survey research with geo-referenced data in a geographic information systems platform to provide spatial representations of social and environmental system convergence. PDA offers a tool for collecting data that will make necessary socio-environmental data available in a faster, reliable and cheaper manner; future research can build on this study by discovering other possible but less highlighted benefits of PDA. Although, with great benefits, there are lessons to be learnt and issues to consider when deploying PDA in large-scale household surveys
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Adekola, O., Lamond, J., Adelekan, I., Bhattacharya-Mis, N., Ekinya, M., Bassey Eze, E., & Ujoh, F. (2023). Towards adoption of mobile data collection for effective adaptation and climate risk management in Africa. Geoscience Data Journal, 10(2), 276-290. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.156
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Royal Meteorological Society
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Geoscience Data Journal
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10.1002/gdj3.156
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2049-6060