TY - JOUR A1 - Anglewicz, Phil A1 - Kohler, Hans-Peter A1 - Watkins, Susan A1 - Adams, Jimi A1 - Obare, Francis T1 - The Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project 2004-06: Data collection, data quality, and analysis of attrition Y1 - 2009/05/05 JF - Demographic Research JO - Demographic Research SN - 1435-9871 SP - 503 EP - 540 DO - 10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.21 VL - 20 IS - 21 UR - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol20/21/ L1 - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol20/21/20-21.pdf L2 - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol20/21/20-21.pdf N2 - In this paper, we evaluate the quality of survey data collected by the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project by investigating four potential sources of bias: sample representativeness, interviewer effects, response unreliability and sample attrition. We discuss the results of our analysis and implications of our findings for the collection of data in similar contexts. ER -