The Ten Beads Method: A Novel Way to Collect Quantitative Data in Rural Uganda

This paper illustrates how locally appropriate methods can be used to collect quantitative data from illiterate respondents. This method uses local beads to represent quantities, which is a novel yet potentially valuable methodological improvement over standard Western survey methods.

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Autores principales: Bwambale, Francis Mulekya, Moyer, Cheryl A., Komakech, Innocent, -Mangen, Fred-Wabwire, Lori, Jody R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4140323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25170477
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2013.e6
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author Bwambale, Francis Mulekya
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spelling pubmed-41403232014-08-28 The Ten Beads Method: A Novel Way to Collect Quantitative Data in Rural Uganda Bwambale, Francis Mulekya Moyer, Cheryl A. Komakech, Innocent -Mangen, Fred-Wabwire Lori, Jody R J Public Health Res Case Report This paper illustrates how locally appropriate methods can be used to collect quantitative data from illiterate respondents. This method uses local beads to represent quantities, which is a novel yet potentially valuable methodological improvement over standard Western survey methods. PAGEPress Publications 2013-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4140323/ /pubmed/25170477 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2013.e6 Text en ©Copyright F.M. Bwambale et al., 2013 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Moyer, Cheryl A.
Komakech, Innocent
-Mangen, Fred-Wabwire
Lori, Jody R
The Ten Beads Method: A Novel Way to Collect Quantitative Data in Rural Uganda
title The Ten Beads Method: A Novel Way to Collect Quantitative Data in Rural Uganda
title_full The Ten Beads Method: A Novel Way to Collect Quantitative Data in Rural Uganda
title_fullStr The Ten Beads Method: A Novel Way to Collect Quantitative Data in Rural Uganda
title_full_unstemmed The Ten Beads Method: A Novel Way to Collect Quantitative Data in Rural Uganda
title_short The Ten Beads Method: A Novel Way to Collect Quantitative Data in Rural Uganda
title_sort ten beads method: a novel way to collect quantitative data in rural uganda
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4140323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25170477
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2013.e6
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